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“Walking on Sunshine: Spicers Scenic Rim Trail” – The Weekend Australian, Travel & Luxury
As any experienced hiker will tell you, it generally takes until the third night of any multi-day trip for the group to feel comfortable enough to...
“All White Now” – The Australian newspaper
There’s an old skiers’ adage: “If it snows, we goes.”
Pack the car then, snow bunnies, as this week’s cold snap has turned our alpine...
“Where to take your turns” – The Australian newspaper Travel & Luxury
Victoria's winter lockdown, the shifting goalposts of Covid restrictions and patchy snowfall all combined to make last year's Australian skiing season frustrating to say...
“Moveable feast” – The Weekend Australian Magazine
The art of glamping lies in capturing the essence of roughing it without actually doing so. My tepee-style bell tent at Bendigo’s Balgownie Estate...
Where Hollywood meets holiday house – The Australian newspaper Travel & Luxury
If only there was a button to pause this sunrise - like there is to open the blinds - so I could stay in...
“In Safe Hands” – The Australian newspaper Travel & Luxury
The mist rolls in over the Southern Ocean and rises to meet the forested hills of Victoria’s Otway Ranges, drowning the canopies of mighty...
Cider House Rules – The Australian newspaper Travel & Luxury
Photo credit: Nat Mendham
So your dinner party is humming, the mains have just hit the table and you nip to the cellar to retrieve...
Australia’s Great Migrations – The Australian newspaper Travel & Luxury
HUMPBACK WHALES
Queensland
Each winter about 50,000 humpback whales make the journey north from Antarctica to breed in the tropics of Queensland and Western Australia, in...
“After the gold rush” – The Weekend Australian Magazine
Photo credit: Visit Victoria
It’s the middle of a balmy night in Ballarat and I’m stirred from sleep by the most unlikely of sounds outside...
“The Snowies without snow” – The Australian newspaper T&I
You don’t have to be a thrill seeker, or even going particularly fast, to experience the exhilaration of a downhill mountain-bike run at Thredbo,...