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My Book: Aussie Loos with Views!

Welcome to the home of Aussie Loos with Views! the tell-all book and unique Australian travel guide with over 60 of the most pleasurable places to do ‘business’ in OZ! I’m Marion Halliday and as Red Nomad OZ – arguably Australia’s best known loo lover and outhouse observer – I’ve been showcasing Aussie Scenic Public Toilets for over five years right[…]

White Cliffs Sunset, Outback New South Wales

RED Alert #11 – InspiRED by Pretraveller!

January 14, 2014 Red Nomad OZ Australia, Interview, Red Alert, Travel

White Cliffs Sunset, Outback New South Wales* Finding cool photos on Pinterest of places we’ve been and places to go in OZ is one of my favourite time-wasting blog research things to do. So I was thrilled to bits when I was invited by Anne to join her group board Awesome Australia! I was even more thrilled to discover that[…]

Aussie ABC: O is for Opal!

December 18, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Aussie ABC, Australian Round Up, Coober Pedy, Lightning Ridge, Opal, Outback, Quilpie, Random Adventures, Road Trips, Things to do, Travel, White Cliffs, Yowah

Australian Opal I didn’t understand all the fuss about SiO2.nH2O until 2004. That’s when I first visited Coober Pedy. It’s slap bang in the middle of absolutely freakin’ nowhere in the South Australian Outback. And it’s where I first found a piece of SiO2.nH2O I wanted to take home with me. You might know SiO2.nH2O better as Hydrous Silica. Or[…]

Western Treatment Plant with Avalon Airport and You Yangs in the distance, Victoria, Australia

The Aussie Scenic Public Loo that WASN’T!

December 13, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Loos with Views, Melbourne, Scenic Public Toilets, Things to do, Travel, Victoria, Werribee, Western Treatment Plant, Wildlife, You Yangs

I’ve got Pilchard to thank for some of our more obscure travel destinations. If not for him, I wouldn’t be out birding. And if not for birding, I wouldn’t have been in this marvellously scenic spot near Werribee on the outskirts of Melbourne’s west! As I photographed the sunlight glinting across the waters of Port Philip Bay to Portarlington, and[…]

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[…]

Hazards of Travel in Australia

August 18, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Australia, Australiana, Hazards, HOT Touring Tips, Travel

Hazards of Travel in Australia Wild, rugged mountains. Ancient, arid deserts. Weird, wonderful wildlife. Magnificent beaches, lush rainforests, untamed islands. These – and other amazing wonders – are just part of everyday life in the mystical, magical land of OZ! What could possibly go wrong?? Most of the time, nothing. But road-tripping round Australia isn’t always beaches and bakeries, sunlight[…]

6 Random Moments at the Broome Bird Observatory!

June 13, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Australia, Bird watching, Broome, Broome Bird Observatory, Derby, Pindan, Random Adventures, Roebuck Bay, Things to do, Travel, Western Australia

1 The Gun Birder* Driving a bouncing 4WD with 4 passengers along a rough station track in search of Australia’s rarest bird wasn’t cramping the gun birder’s style one bit. All I could see were the vast, rolling plains of grass and samphire stretching to the horizon against an endless blue sky. But our driver and guide on the Broome[…]

RED Alert #8: A Double-half of RED!

April 13, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Interview, Red Alert, Travel

Be honest. If YOU saw a blog called Double-half or One Ten without Ham you’d just HAVE to check it out, right? I first saw Iris’ blog name in the sidebar of one of the blogs I followed so, unable to resist, I took the link. And that’s how I ‘met’ Iris! Although she’s on the other side of the world[…]

Wool Bay Jetty (and public loos) from old Limestone Kiln, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia

The Landslide Legacy – Australia’s Scenic Public Toilet # 34, Wool Bay

April 8, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Lookout, Loos with Views, Scenic Public Toilets, South Australia, Things to do, Wool Bay, Yorke Peninsula

Looking down over the steep limestone cliff into the multicoloured waters of the Southern Yorke Peninsula’s Wool Bay can be a parallel universe moment as the flat and unremarkable pastoral country – often dry and arid – gives way to the vividly coloured and splendid panorama of the bay. High on the cliff the now disused limestone kiln, the only[…]

The Carnamah Connection, Western Australia

March 4, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Australia, Carnamah, National Parks, Tathra National Park, Things to do, TOP Aussie Towns, Travel, Western Australia, Wildflowers

Watch your coincidences, the writers manual said. Spread them out, with no more than three or you’ll lose readers. So just WHAT was I supposed to do about all the Carnamah coincidences? We arrived in Carnamah on Mum’s birthday. Coincidence #1. A distant relative I’d never met before was staying in the caravan park. Coincidence #2. The Carnamah Historical Society[…]