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En Route to Marlgu Billabong, via Wyndham, Western Australia

Marlgu Billabong: Australia’s Wild West!

April 4, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Bird watching, Crocodile, Kimberley, Kununurra, Marlgu Billabong, Outback, Parrys Lagoon Nature Reserve, Road Trips, Things to do, Travel, Western Australia, Wyndham

The lyrics of Aussie folk ballad Waltzing Matilda* are responsible for most people’s entire knowledge of billabongs**. So visiting a real one – like Marlgu Billabong – raises certain expectations. Visiting a real Billabong That’s why I found the unexpected lack of swagmen, coolibah trees, jolly jumbucks and troopers at the Marlgu Billabong, oasis in the Kimberley west of Kununurra,[…]

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[…]

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[…]

Mindil Beach Sunset, Darwin (pic by Pilchard)

7 Days … from Adelaide to Darwin!

February 25, 2013 Red Nomad OZ 7 Days in ..., Central Australia, Coober Pedy, Darwin, Devil's Marbles, HOT Touring Tips, Katherine, Katherine Gorge, Northern Territory, Outback, Road Trips, South Australia, Stuarts Well, Top End, Uluru, Woomera

Does it REALLY take 7 days to drive the ~3000 km from Adelaide to Darwin? Only if you want to see a few sights along the way on a REAL adventure! Driving yourself is the best option (try Car hire if your vehicle isn’t up to scratch) to experience a cross-section of Australia’s unique countryside from the dry south, through the Red[…]

Rocks at twilight, Gantheaume Point, Broome, Western Australia

5 Reasons to visit Broome in July!

February 19, 2013 Red Nomad OZ Broome, Broome Bird Observatory, Coconut Wells, Gantheaume Point, Kimberley, Roebuck Bay, Sun Pictures, Things to do, Western Australia, Willie Creek

Blue- and red-coloured landscapes are generally associated with other planets, abstract art or young children! But while you’re checking out all the amazing things to do in Broome you can experience a distinctive red and blue landscape for REAL! The ocean’s characteristic blue hue from white clay in the water combines with the red local Pindan rock and soil in[…]

Cutta Cutta Caves, via Katherine, Northern Territory

The Ghoulish Guide of Cutta Cutta Caves!

December 18, 2012 Red Nomad OZ Cutta Cutta Caves, Katherine, Northern Territory, Things to do, Top End, Travel

I hadn’t suspected the otherworldly limestone Karst country we’d crossed en route from the Visitor Centre to the Cutta Cutta Caves entrance to be a portal to a parallel universe. But had we inadvertently stumbled into a casting call for a bad B-grade movie? For now, waiting for our guide at the stairs leading down to the locked entry gate[…]

Native Waterweed on the surface of the Crater pool, Mt Hypipamee National Park, Queensland

The Hypipamee Heebie-jeebies …

December 4, 2012 Red Nomad OZ Atherton Tableland, Bird watching, Far North Queensland, Millaa Millaa, Mt Hypipamee National Park, National Parks, Queensland, Rainforest, Travel, World Heritage

‘I would NOT like to fall down there,’ the backpacker remarked to his mates with that peculiarly British mixture of overconfident understatement and blinding obvious as he stared down into the depths of the crater. They nodded wisely, unsure whether or not they’d heard something profound, but deciding to play it safe. Banal though his utterance was, however, he was[…]

Victoria River Escarpment, Northern Territory

The 5-Experiences-in-24-hours Victoria River Roadhouse Action Plan!

November 20, 2012 Red Nomad OZ Campsites, Joe Creek Walk, Northern Territory, Outback, Road Trips, Things to do, Top End, Travel, Victoria River, Victoria River Roadhouse, Walks

I don’t know what made us decide to stay overnight at the Victoria River Roadhouse as we pulled in for fuel, late on a Northern Territory July morning. Perhaps we took the Grey Nomad’s experimental driving technique involving an inexpertly executed U-turn directly in front of us without warning as a sign to stay off the roads that day. […]

Crops on Southern Yorke Peninsula, South Australia

“Red and Pilchard’s Day in the Country” by Red

November 9, 2012 Red Nomad OZ Edithburgh, Lighthouse, Other Stuff, South Australia, Sultana Point, Things to do, Travel, Troubridge Point, Yorke Peninsula

My Story by Red Nomad OZ Today we went for a drive in the country on the Yorke Peninsula. The fields were all dry but the sky was very blue. We stopped to look at flowers. There were lots of white everlastings. We had to look for snakes but we didn’t see any. That was good. There was just a[…]

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[…]