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Random Adventures in the Scenic Rim Part TWO

April 17, 2015 Red Nomad OZ Carrs Lookout, Condamine Gorge, Lake Moogerah, Moogerah Peaks National Park, Mt Barney National Park, Mt French, National Parks, Queensland, Random Adventures, Scenic Rim, Things to do, Travel

Are you ready to return to that magical land of mountains awash with rocks and rainforest; steep passes, plunging waterfalls and patch-worked plains; green and glowing with magnificent sunsets? What land is this? It’s Australia’s amazing Scenic Rim Region that I introduced in Part One HERE! Don’t recall? Check it out NOW! I’ll wait … … OK! You’re back! So[…]

7 Wonderful Walks in Innes National Park

April 2, 2015 Red Nomad OZ Innes National Park, Inneston, National Parks, South Australia, Things to do, Travel, Walks, Yorke Peninsula

Sand dunes and shipwrecks. A wild and windswept heli-pad. Magnificent cliffs, an old wooden railway transport line and exotic lighthouses. Historic ruins and a sailor a long way from home. None of these are visible from the entrance to Innes National Park. And you can’t see them from the ~30 km of road winding through the park. To discover the[…]

Walk Wild Wilkawillina!

February 2, 2015 Red Nomad OZ Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges National Park, National Parks, Outback, South Australia, Things to do, Travel, Walks, Wilkawillina Gorge

A six hour drive north of Adelaide takes you deep into South Australia’s Outback zone AND into the Flinders Ranges National Park. It’s considered remote. By most people’s standards, anyway. Factor in its staggering scenery, wonderful wildlife, numerous hiking trails and awesome natural beauty, and you’ve got one of the best eco-tourism adventure destinations in the country! That makes it[…]

Why Hopetoun Victoria is a TOP Aussie Town!

January 28, 2015 Red Nomad OZ Hopetoun, Lake Lascelles, Mallee, National Parks, Things to do, TOP Aussie Towns, Travel, Victoria, Walks, Wyperfeld National Park

I don’t know why it is that travellers are routinely described as ‘weary’. If I’m describing myself, I just say I’m a traveller – not a weary one. But when travel publications refer to havens for the weary traveller; and weary traveller’s resting places; and recharging the weary travellers batteries and the like, you start to believe the hype. So after[…]

A Day in the Border Ranges National Park

January 22, 2015 Red Nomad OZ Border Ranges National Park, Kyogle, Mt Warning, National Parks, New South Wales, Things to do, Travel, Walks, World Heritage

Australia aggressively markets itself as all sunshine, surf and sand; red rocks, red dust and reefs. But a visit to the Border Ranges National Park will show another side. Ancient sub-tropical rainforests of Gondwana clothe the sheer cliffs formed by the eroded caldera of what’s left of a massive shield volcano. They’re so unlike anything else you’ll see downunder they’ve[…]

Climb Mount Abrupt! Grampians, Victoria

November 12, 2014 Red Nomad OZ Dunkeld, Grampians, Grampians National Park, Halls Gap, Lookout, Mt Abrupt, National Parks, Things to do, Travel, Victoria, Walks

It took an awfully LOOOOOONG time to climb Mount Abrupt. It took a long time to even get there. Over 20 years of regular trips to the Grampians National Park and its amazing natural attractions had passed by before we fully explored its wilder, more remote southern end. We’d always found plenty to do from Halls Gap, in the Central[…]

Beauty and the Beasts: Bruny Island Cruises

October 12, 2014 Red Nomad OZ Adventure Bay, Bruny Island, National Parks, South Bruny National Park, Tasmania, Things to do, Travel

Bruny Island As far as I could tell, the fashion police hadn’t made it down to Bruny Island’s Adventure Bay. Just as well. If they had, they’d have been handing out infringement notices left, right and centre on board our purpose-built Naiad. We were donning the Bruny Island Cruises complimentary waterproof onesies – our only protection from the winds[…]

Why Woodenbong is a TOP Aussie Town!

October 7, 2014 Red Nomad OZ Bean Creek Falls, Koreelah National Park, Mt Barney National Park, Mt Lindesay, National Parks, New South Wales, Queen Mary Falls, Things to do, Tooloom Falls, Tooloom National Park, TOP Aussie Towns, Travel, Upper Clarence Region, Woodenbong, World Heritage

Even if I’d been to Woodenbong BEFORE I listed the Aussie place names that WON’T keep you guessing, it never would have made the cut. Yes, there really IS a town called Woodenbong. And no, this Northern New South Wales town just south of the Queensland border and ~150 km west of coastal hot spot Byron Bay ISN’T named after[…]

View across the Bunbinyunna, Elder and Red Ranges from Bridle Gap, Wilpena Pound, South Australia

Walk the Bridle Gap Wilpena Pound Trail, Flinders Ranges

December 28, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Bridle Gap, Campsites, Flinders Ranges, Flinders Ranges National Park, National Parks, South Australia, Things to do, Travel, Walks, Wilpena Pound

The last few kilometres were heavy going as I trudged back to camp. The bright daylight faded into twilight as the sun sank below the eroded peaks surrounding the amazing Wilpena Pound valley, centrepiece of South Australia’s Flinders Ranges National Park. The evening coolness rose as we entered the campground. While taking an 18.8 kilometre (11.7 mile) hike might not[…]

Pondalowie Bay from West Cape Lighthouse

The Jewel in the Toe – Innes National Park, South Australia

November 21, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Australia, Cape Spencer, Emu, Innes National Park, Inneston, Kangaroo, Lookout, National Parks, South Australia, Things to do, Travel, West Cape, Wildflowers, Wildlife, Yorke Peninsula

Visit Innes National Park on a fine day and if you don’t end up with a photo that looks close to the one above, you’re just not trying! But joining the ‘Entrance to Innes National Park’ photo club isn’t the only reason to visit this smallish 9400+ hectare National Park. It’s around 300 km from Adelaide on the toe of[…]