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Ardrossan Jetty Loo, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia

Tour the Yorke Peninsula via its BEST Scenic Loos!

April 24, 2015 Red Nomad OZ Scenic Public Toilets, South Australia, Things to do, Travel, Yorke Peninsula

Road-tripping around Australia isn’t always easy. Long distances with lots of nothing-much between attractions. Hazardous heat, dodgy roads and limited phone coverage. And – unless you’re an exhibitionist who loves squatting by the side of the road in full view – a LOT of leg-crossing between amenities! But it’s almost impossible to swing a long-tailed lizard – or drive more[…]

Random Adventures in the Scenic Rim Part TWO

April 17, 2015 Red Nomad OZ Carrs Lookout, Condamine Gorge, Lake Moogerah, Moogerah Peaks National Park, Mt Barney National Park, Mt French, National Parks, Queensland, Random Adventures, Scenic Rim, Things to do, Travel

Are you ready to return to that magical land of mountains awash with rocks and rainforest; steep passes, plunging waterfalls and patch-worked plains; green and glowing with magnificent sunsets? What land is this? It’s Australia’s amazing Scenic Rim Region that I introduced in Part One HERE! Don’t recall? Check it out NOW! I’ll wait … … OK! You’re back! So[…]

7 Wonderful Walks in Innes National Park

April 2, 2015 Red Nomad OZ Innes National Park, Inneston, National Parks, South Australia, Things to do, Travel, Walks, Yorke Peninsula

Sand dunes and shipwrecks. A wild and windswept heli-pad. Magnificent cliffs, an old wooden railway transport line and exotic lighthouses. Historic ruins and a sailor a long way from home. None of these are visible from the entrance to Innes National Park. And you can’t see them from the ~30 km of road winding through the park. To discover the[…]

Sydney Harbour Bridge from the Opera House

See Sydney in 4 hours between flights!

March 12, 2015 Red Nomad OZ New South Wales, Sydney, Things to do, Travel, Travel Tips

As if to make up for being half an hour late, our baggage emerged almost immediately after we disembarked at Sydney’s domestic terminal. I’d been SO looking forward to this long layover because nothing does it for me quite like sitting in a large airport with nothing particular to do, nowhere particular to go and no chance of transferring to an[…]

A Day in the Border Ranges National Park

January 22, 2015 Red Nomad OZ Border Ranges National Park, Kyogle, Mt Warning, National Parks, New South Wales, Things to do, Travel, Walks, World Heritage

Australia aggressively markets itself as all sunshine, surf and sand; red rocks, red dust and reefs. But a visit to the Border Ranges National Park will show another side. Ancient sub-tropical rainforests of Gondwana clothe the sheer cliffs formed by the eroded caldera of what’s left of a massive shield volcano. They’re so unlike anything else you’ll see downunder they’ve[…]

7 Random Kimberley Adventures

November 23, 2014 Red Nomad OZ Derby, Geikie Gorge, Gibb River Road, Kimberley, Kununurra, Lake Argyle, Marlgu Billabong, Random Adventures, Things to do, Travel, Western Australia, Willie Creek

By Northern Hemisphere standards, winter in many areas of Australia isn’t particularly cold. But that doesn’t stop a mass exodus from the ‘cold’ south during the Aussie winter (officially June/July/August), to the north where it’s actually hot! But it’s not just the average daily maximum of around 30 °C that makes the Kimberley region stretching across the north of Western[…]

Queensland from Lions Road Border Crossing

7 Reasons to Road-trip the Lions Road NSW

November 17, 2014 Red Nomad OZ Border Loop, Kyogle, Lions Road, Lookout, New South Wales, Queensland, Rathdowney, Road Trips, Spiral Loop, Things to do, Travel, Walks

As Aussie road trips go, the Lions Road NSW isn’t the best known. Or the longest. Or even the most demanding! But this 50 km fully sealed stretch of road linking the Mt Lindesay Highway near Queensland town Beaudesert with the Summerland Way near New South Wales town Kyogle is one of the most scenic, unusual and intriguing stretches of[…]

Why Woodenbong is a TOP Aussie Town!

October 7, 2014 Red Nomad OZ Bean Creek Falls, Koreelah National Park, Mt Barney National Park, Mt Lindesay, National Parks, New South Wales, Queen Mary Falls, Things to do, Tooloom Falls, Tooloom National Park, TOP Aussie Towns, Travel, Upper Clarence Region, Woodenbong, World Heritage

Even if I’d been to Woodenbong BEFORE I listed the Aussie place names that WON’T keep you guessing, it never would have made the cut. Yes, there really IS a town called Woodenbong. And no, this Northern New South Wales town just south of the Queensland border and ~150 km west of coastal hot spot Byron Bay ISN’T named after[…]

On the Lake Surprise circuit track, Mt Eccles National Park, Victoria

8 Random Adventures on the Kanawinka Geotrail!

January 31, 2014 Red Nomad OZ Blue Lake, Byaduk Caves, Green Lake, Kanawinka Geopark, Kanawinka Geotrail, Mount Gambier, Mt Eccles National Park, Mt Rouse, Mt Schank, Nigretta Falls, Penshurst, Road Trips, South Australia, Tantanoola Cave, Victoria, Wannon Falls

My first adventures on the Kanawinka Geotrail pre-date Pilchard by quite a few years. They also pre-date both owning a camera AND knowing that the Kanawinka Geotrail even existed!! Now I know the Geotrail connects 60+ significant sites across South-Eastern South Australia and South-Western Victoria. It forms Australia’s first UNESCO Global Geopark – one of the largest regions of volcanic[…]

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[…]