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Middleton, Queensland

Photo of the Week: Remote Middleton Queensland

Remote Middleton, Queensland We pull into Middleton.  There’s no settlements for more than a 100 km on either side of this former staging post. It’s hot, windy, and my face feels bits of dust getting picked up by the gusts. When the breeze dies down, the flies come. It isn’t comfortable, but I didn’t come […]

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Australia East Coast Classic

There are generations of travelers who have been brought up on tales from the Hippie Trail, that hallucinogenic trip from Istanbul to Kathmandu, later extending to Sydney, Australia.  Alas, Imperial war mongering and religious section eights took significant parts of that journey off the map forcing current travelers to negotiate the gaps with a series

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Photo of the Week: Hill Inlet, Whitsunday Island Australia

  Welcome to the Whitsundays, a collection of 74 islands off the central coast of Queensland, Australia. This is Great Barrier Reef territory and a day out on a boat exploring the beaches and reefs around here is pure fun.   Together with our vessel’s perma-tanned, skin like leather, captain, six of us headed out

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Australia Day Celebration

Photo of the Week: Australia Day Celebrations

Australia Day Celebrations Australia Day, celebrated on the 26th January has a different meaning to different people. For those of British decent, it celebrates the day that Captain Arthur Phillip claimed the great southern land for  his King, George III in 1788. For many other Australians who have immigrated from over 200 other nations, the

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