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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[…]

Moon Rocks in Main Street, Richmond, Queensland

Only in OZ #19 – Moon Rock-Throwing World Championships, Richmond, Queensland

February 18, 2012 Red Nomad OZ Australiana, Bakery, Boulia, Fossils, Moon Rocks, Outback, Queensland, Richmond

I’ve yet to meet a Calcareous Concretion I didn’t like. Although there’s some confusion about exactly where that magical Moon Rock meeting is likely to be. My first sighting in Outback Queensland’s Richmond was supposed to be ‘unique to the Richmond Shire’ according to the town guide. BUT … I’d clocked up several hundred Moon Rock sightings before heading a[…]

Plesiosaur at the Stone House Museum, Boulia

Aussie ABC – F is for Fossils!

October 10, 2011 Red Nomad OZ Aussie ABC, Boulia, Dinosaur, Eromanga, Fossils, Hughenden, Isisford, Mt Isa, Muttaburra, Outback, Queensland, Richmond, Winton

The ancient landscape of OZ, eroded by time, long disappeared sea beds and a harsh climate has given rise to weirdly unique and bizarre creatures. Well … their remains, anyway! I knew this. But I DIDN’T know the present day Outback fossil fields near northwest Queensland’s Richmond, would engender a creature more fantastic than any of them. And I was[…]

Australia’s Scenic Public Toilets #16 – Richmond, Queensland

July 6, 2011 Red Nomad OZ Fossils, Outback, Queensland, Richmond, Scenic Public Toilets

At first glance, the setting of these conveniences in western Queensland’s Richmond is far from exotic. It’s nowhere near as scenic as Lord Howe Island’s #15 – my favourite to date! Unlike Largs Bay’s #12, there’s no colourful loo-art adorning the amenities block either. And it also lacks a quirky connection, like the poetry of Gunnedah’s #8! Fossicking fields – loo[…]