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Capture the Colours of OZ Country Towns!

October 3, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Australian Round Up, Australiana, Brunswick Heads, Carnarvon, Marree, Northern Rivers, Outback, Shepparton, TOP Aussie Towns, Travel, Windorah

The FAAAAAABULOUS colours of OZ make the life of a downunder blogging, photographing, writing traveller with a penchant for bakeries REALLY easy … Getting a good pic from right in front of a spectacularly AWESOME panorama, a weird and wacky BIG Thing or a KILLER sunset is what’s called, in the technical photographic terminology used by us amateurs, a SURE[…]

Yarrie Lake, via Narrabri, New South Wales

6 MUST-visit Aussie Campsites

September 24, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Australian Round Up, Barcoo River, Campsites, Caroline Pool, China Wall WA, Devil's Marbles, Goolwa, Halls Creek, Halls Gap, HOT Touring Tips, Isisford, Lake Alexandrina, Narrabri, Yarrie Lake

Searching for Australian campsites or caravan parks that we won’t regret in the morning adds that little frisson of uncertainty that makes road-tripping round Australia so exciting. Although sometimes it’s a little TOO exciting when darkness is falling and we’ve got NO clue as to where we’ll spend the night. That’s why we take time each trip on a reconnaissance mission[…]

Big Bend, Murray River via Swan Reach, South Australia

13 Australian Place Names that WON’T keep you guessing …

September 16, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Australian Round Up, Big Bend, Black Mountain, Black Rock Falls, Boulder Beach, Circular Pool, Five Rivers Lookout, Mt Buffalo, Pink Lake, Porcupine Gorge, Redbank Gorge, Redbanks, Rhino Head, Snowy River, The Pyramid, Yellow Water

Even without maps to guide them, Australian place names mean visitors to Australia – whether overseas tourists or aliens from beyond the Southern Cross – need not fear losing their way. In some parts of Australia, anyway. Thanks to the daring imagination and colourful speech of our colonial past, working out your location can be as simple as describing what[…]

Yardie Creek Gorge, Cape Range National Park, via Exmouth, Western Australia

6 ALMOST Secret TOP Australian National Parks!

March 12, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Boodjamulla National Park, Cape Range National Park, Great Australian Bight, HOT Touring Tips, Keep River National Park, National Parks, Nullarbor Plain, Paroo-Darling National Park, Wyperfeld National Park

At LAST I’ve got the answer to that irritating question – Have you been to all the Australian National Parks? I’ll just get out my recently released 2nd edition of Explore Australia’s excellent Explore Australia’s National Parks! And point out that to visit ALL of Australia’s 500+ National Parks would be a life-long project. The question comes up because lots of visitors stop[…]

Fishing boats at Denham Jetty, Shark Bay, Western Australia

12 Coastal Photo Clichés from around Australia!

February 4, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Australia

With Australia’s 25,760 km (16,000+ mile) coastline, more than most other countries, you’d think it’d be easy to find enough distinctive spots for photos with a unique and unmistakeably OZ flavour, right? So why do I repeatedly find myself with shots that could have been taken … well … ANYWHERE?? See if you recognise any of THESE! 1 The Fishing[…]

5 Cool BLUE and 5 RED Hot Aussie TOP SPOTS!

October 30, 2012 Red Nomad OZ Bitter Springs, Evans Head, Grampians National Park, Lake Argyle, Mataranka, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Outback, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia, Yorke Peninsula

Is BLUE the new RED? It is downunder where blue and red have been interchangeable for YEARS! But before you start thinking us Aussies are a nation of colour-blind fools, it’s all due to the colloquial contrariness that means we call things the opposite to what they are. So a tall person becomes ‘Shorty’. A skinny person becomes ‘Fatso’. And[…]