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Looking towards the coast from the Eungella Plateau, Queensland

Aussie ABC – L is for Lookout!

January 11, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Arkaroola, Aussie ABC, Gosse Bluff, Kalbarri National Park, Keep River National Park, Mt Buffalo, Mt Warning, Mt Wellington, New England, Point Lookout, Sillers Lookout, Tasmania, Tylers Pass

Downunder, a sign pointing to a LOOKOUT isn’t a warning to LOOK OUT! – it’s a vantage or viewing point from which to better admire the surrounding landscape. Like this completely gratuitous one above – serving no other purpose in this post but to attract your attention! It worked, didn’t it?! In this relatively flat land, where the highest mountain is[…]

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[…]

Aussie ABC – H is for Holiday

January 21, 2012 Red Nomad OZ Aussie ABC, Far North Queensland, Holidays, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Things to do, Victoria

‘Now you’ve ‘done’ Australia, are you going overseas?’ If Pilchard and I had a dollar for every time we’ve been asked that question, it’d pay for a round-the-world ticket! BUT … the answer would still be the same … Don’t get me wrong. I’ve got nothing against the concept of ‘overseas’ – after all, I was born, and have[…]

Brachina Gorge, Flinders Ranges National Park, South Australia*

Aussie ABC – G is for Gorge

December 4, 2011 Red Nomad OZ Aussie ABC, Brachina Gorge, Cania Gorge, Carnarvon Gorge, Golton Gorge, Gorges, Katherine Gorge, Kings Canyon, Lawn Hill, National Parks, Northern Territory, Queensland, Redbanks, Standley Chasm, Trephina Gorge, Victoria

Gorging yourself silly in OZ doesn’t mean what you’re probably thinking it means. For a start, I’m not even talking about food – although you haven’t lived until you’ve eaten at a fine OZ bakery – but I digress! No, I’m talking about gorges. OZ is riddled with them. And in some parts, you can’t swing a long-tailed[…]