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When I first ventured into the outback, I wanted to discover the real Australia. I wanted to see the red earth, the corrugated roads, and the billion-year-old rock formations. Having…
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Enter our Weirdest Collective Nouns for Australian Animals…also known as a ‘List of Probably Useless Taxonomies that May Come up in Pub Trivia One Day’.
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Australia is blessed with 10,685 beaches in total, and around 10,684 of them look like something out of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie. Comparing sugar-white sand and colour-matching precise shades of aquamarine is…
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American comedian Arj Barker once came up with an experiment to put the Australian vernacular to the test. Suspicious of what he was sure were just made-up words sprinkled into…
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Can you drive from Cairns to Uluru? You bet! Adventure Tours Austraila just launched a brand new 7-day overland journey: Reef to Rock.
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Hobart may attract all the limelight, but leafy Launceston is happy to play second fiddle – so long as it’s given free reign to break out into a solo every…
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It’s okay if you don’t know how to pronounce it; we didn’t either until we paid a visit to Adelaide’s playground, the famous Fleurieu Peninsula (think floo-ree-oh). Easily daytrip-able from…
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Road tripping 101: Our favourite spots on the Great Ocean Road
by James Shackell August 25, 2016We’re cruising along the clifftop highway, the minibus taking turns ponderously, grinding up the gears as we climb through a stand of eucalypt trees. All of sudden the ground to…
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Why you should definitely visit Adelaide on your Australian adventure
by James Shackell July 19, 2016It’s a pretty good bet that if you’re talking to someone who’s dissing Adelaide, they’ve probably never actually been to Adelaide. “Nah mate, wouldn’t go there. Just a lot of…