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Don’t Miss This! The Plane in the Paddock, Longreach QLD

Last Updated on November 17, 2017 by Red Nomad OZ Well OK, it’s not actually a ‘paddock’ as such. And it’s certainly NOT just a plane! It’s a fully operational Qantas 747 Jumbo Jet (aka 747-200 VH-EBQ for those who care about such things!), the centrepiece of the Qantas Founders Museum – today celebrating 90 years of Qantas. It’s parked on[…]

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Traveller SHAME Files #4 – The Hills are Alive!!

Last Updated on November 14, 2015 by Red Nomad OZ I can’t wait to see the most recent addition to South Australia’s ‘anti-hoon’ laws enacted! For those unfamiliar with laws peculiar to this sometimes draconian state, legislation penalising certain automobile related behaviours – such as drag racing, laying rubber and doing burn-outs – can result in the offender’s vehicle being[…]

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Signs #6 – Dune!

Last Updated on August 18, 2019 by Red Nomad OZ If not for my mate pointing it out, I would never have noticed this sign on the dunes near the Largs Bay Jetty, South Australia. It’s pretty small, and doesn’t have any of the visual cues that indicate warning.  If I noticed it at all, it would have been to subconsciously[…]

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Australia’s Scenic Public Toilets #8 – Gunnedah, New South Wales

Last Updated on March 21, 2015 by Red Nomad OZ At first glance, this public toilet in Gunnedah, Central NSW seems unremarkable, right? Especially when compared to the wonders and delights of the Australian public toilets already on display in these pages … BUT … Gunnedah’s offering can hold its head high in the public toilet pantheon, because it offers a complete poetry-themed[…]

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Sunset over the Richmond River, 10 Budget Travel Tips

7 Days in … Ballina, NSW

Last Updated on February 5, 2021 by Red Nomad OZ Thank goddess for Byron Bay! The Byron tourist magnet sucks a conglomerate of backpackers, yuppies, new age-ists, surfers, whale watchers and regular local and overseas tourists into its vortex, leaving the fabulous, diverse and bakery-filled Ballina region relatively uncrowded. This is good. This 7 day teaser is only an introduction[…]

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Only in OZ #6 – The Flying Combi, Lightning Ridge, NSW

Last Updated on March 3, 2017 by Red Nomad OZ The combi van is generally accepted as a symbol of surfie/hippie culture, but a decorative, airborne one with the label ‘surfing art’ in the middle of the outback town of Lightning Ridge in north central New South Wales far, far from the ocean SURELY deserves its own classification! I just don’t know[…]

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Only in OZ #5 – The Musical Ship, Cooktown, Cape York, Queensland

Last Updated on March 3, 2017 by Red Nomad OZ While it’s not quite a replica of Captain Cook’s vessel when he explored the north coast and disembarked where Cooktown (geddit?!) now stands, the musical ship is completely landlocked in the linear park along the mouth of the Endeavour river.  Perhaps the kindest way to describe the array of noise making apparatus (apparati??)[…]

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