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I don’t know what I expected swimming alongside a Whale Shark to remind me of, but what I didn’t expect it to remind me of was being a journalist chasing around…
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The Gibb River road is an unsealed track that runs through the heart of the rugged Kimberley region. The former stock route traverses ranges and rivers 660km from Derby in the…
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Everybody has preconceived ideas about Australia, just like they do about everywhere. We’ve got some of the best beaches in the world (true). We all like vegemite, Rupert Murdoch and…
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It’s pretty hard to find one spot on Australia’s north-west coast and say, definitively, ‘Yep, that’s as good as it gets.’ But having recently travelled by road from Cairns down…
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Whoever it was that first decided to take their pet camel for a sunset saunter along Cable Beach hit on a good thing. Whether they did so in the hope…
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If you take your outdoor adventure warm, with high-humidity and pinch of palm-shaded paradise, do yourself a favour and book a ticket to Cairns. It’s northern Queensland’s ‘gateway’ town, and although…
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Photography
Photos of Uluru: shooting the 50mm challenge in Australia’s Red Centre
by Lucy Piper June 7, 2016The Australian outback is my favourite place on earth. It feels like only a few kilometres after leaving one of the state capitals you’re engulfed by a vast expanse of…
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Australia. The great land of opportunity. But in 2016 a lot of young Aussies don’t seem to think so. Most of us view Australia as small fry; a splodge on the…
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You’d be forgiven for thinking Tasmania is just one big incredible national park, with its fern-shrouded gullies, soaring eucalypts, craggy granite cliff faces and inky black lakes. Head to the coast…
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It’s fair to say Australia hasn’t always nailed it when it comes to tourism videos. It shouldn’t be hard, right? We’ve got a country that a) looks sweet on film,…
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Besides blistering heat, the world’s only land regatta and the whole middle-of-nowhere thing, Alice Springs is known for one thing: Aboriginal art.
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By Red Centre standards, Alice Springs is a sprawling metropolis. By any other standards in the world, it’s a small town of about 28,000 people, smack bang in the middle…