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Tunnel Creek Crossing, Western Australia

TOP 10 All-Australian Adventure Hot Spots for World Toilet Day!

November 20, 2019 Red Nomad OZ Bruny Island, Crocodile, Cruise, Flinders Ranges, Gibb River Road, Head of Bight, Loos with Views, Lord Howe Island, Mt Hotham, Mt Kosciuszko, Quobba, Quobba Blowholes, Richmond, Scenic Public Toilets, Sliding Rock, Timber Creek, TOP Ten, Tunnel Creek National Park, Wilkawillina Gorge, World Toilet Day

World Toilet Day was November 19, and I forgot. Bummer! Forgetting the biggest event on the loo lover’s calendar is a dunny detective’s disaster! A toilet tragic’s tragedy!! A convenience chaser’s catastrophe!!! BUT … … then I think about the 4.2 billion people without safely managed sanitation facilities and the 673 million people worldwide who practice open defecation. The 2[…]

Aussie ABC: T is for Towns Part 2

August 17, 2015 Red Nomad OZ Australiana, Exmouth, Fitzroy Crossing, Nimbin, Orroroo, Portland, Quobba, Richmond TAS, Swan Reach, Things to do, Travel, Tully, Useless Loop, Victoria River Roadhouse, Wycheproof, Yowah

Australian Country Towns don’t come much smaller than some of these! But each town on my A-Z list within my Aussie ABC punches above its weight with attractions you probably won’t find anywhere else. My list of HOT Aussie Towns from N-Z here in Part 2 have attractions so COOL you’ll want to see them all. And if you missed[…]

Australian Bustard at Quobba, Western Australia

Save the Poor Bustard!

October 3, 2012 Red Nomad OZ Australiana, Bird watching, Bustard, Quobba, Quobba Blowholes, Western Australia, Wildlife

The superb double entendre of 70’s conservation poster slogan ‘Save the Poor Bustard’ gave my childish mind what I can now identify as a salacious thrill. It could actually be repeated without the speaker being accused of swearing!! All the same, it shouldn’t have come as a complete surprise when, after testing the slogan out once or twice, I was[…]