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Weird Stuff #3 – Quorn, South Australia

February 6, 2011 Red Nomad OZ Bird watching, Other Stuff, Quorn, South Australia, Weird Stuff, Wildlife

Desperately seeking sewage ponds (as one does!), we whizzed down a dirt road behind Quorn, in South Australia’s mid-North, only just keeping ahead of the clouds of dust we were generating. And the squalor of the sewage pond? Does that quantify Quorn’s quintessence?? Of course not! Our quest will be no surprise to quantities of inquisitive birdwatchers who regularly add[…]

Weird Stuff #2 – Bowen, QLD

November 18, 2010 Red Nomad OZ Bakery, Bowen, Other Stuff, Queensland, Travel, Weird Stuff

After a wet and windy flying flit from Cairns, we arrived in Bowen intending to set off early the next morning. Why the rush? We’d foolishly dallied in Cairns for too long, so had limited time to meet pre-arranged commitments in Ballina. As it was 12 years since our last visit, we shook off the travel-weariness of the 600-odd km drive, and[…]

Weird Stuff #1 – Mt Molloy, Queensland

October 2, 2010 Red Nomad OZ Mt Molloy, Queensland, Weird Stuff

Did a double-take while wandering down Mount Molloy’s main street after a burrito at the Mexican cantina! Maybe we’d had too much chili? Was that REALLY a dinosaur in the trailer?? The most logical explanation was, of course, that we’d somehow strayed into a parallel universe … But no, the dinosaur was apparently the centrepiece of the ‘Christmas in July’ street[…]