Month: September 2016

Homeward Bound

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In two days we will have traveled from one edge of the country to the other, flying thousands of kilometers across four states, taken off five times, and I will have been strapped into my copilot seat for nearly 12 hours. We’ve seen the breadth of the Australian landscape, from the turquoise waters off Broome, the red ridged desert waves of the great sandy desert, the spectacular Olgas and Uluru, the salt plains of Lake Eyre, before coming into the Melbourne cityscape under a spectacular sunset. Read More

Go West

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Departing our little slice of heaven, we headed further West to Cape Leveque/Kooljamin. The only destination I had visited before, I had to return again to the peninsula where the red dirt meets the sea, where one can watch both the sun set and moon rise over the ocean. Read More

Kimberley Magic

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On the remote and wild east coastline of the Kimberley’s, as you fly north along the rocky and cliffed red coast, your suddenly see spectacular large white sand dunes perched on the edge of a river delta. You’ve arrived at the luxuriously wild and spectacular Berkeley River Lodge. To add to the exclusiveness and remoteness, there is no land access – only air and sea. Read More

Outback theme park

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People refer to El Questro as an outback theme park. In ways they are right – tours are rather routine and formulaic (to the point where the sunset tour viewing place is permanently signed as such, reserved only for paying tour guests) and the place is built to accommodate hoards of campers. That all said, they have got the formula right. Read More

Go wild

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Our last night before hitting Darwin and I decided on a little treat – my thank you to the pilot for flying me around Australia. My little splurge was Wildmans Wilderness Retreat, a little lurury nestled in a slice of private land in the middle of Mary River National Park, just West of Darwin.  Read More

Down by the billabong

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By chance we spotted a poster advertising a cultural festival 17km away. After a very long day exploring Kakadu, we jumped on the 5pm shuttle bus down the rabbit hole. While advertised as festival, a more appropriate description was that the local mob had invited people to join them for an afternoon family gathering by the waterhole.

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