A Week in Coffs Harbour on the Coast of New South Wales
Coffs Harbour is about a five hour drive south of Brisbane on the New South Wales coast. It is not a big town, it has a population of about 45,000 and has a reasonably ordinary looking town centre....
View ArticleThings To Do In and Around Coffs Harbour
As you drive into Coffs Harbour, one of the first things you will notice is the Big Banana, mostly because, well, there is a big banana… As usual, you can click on any of these images to enlarge them....
View ArticleAvoiding the Motorways and Taking the Back Roads in Australia
As you know, a couple of weeks ago we had a holiday in Coffs Harbour on the New South Wales coast. We’d driven down using the motorway, known as the Pacific Highway and also Highway 1. I’ve written...
View ArticleAustralian Roads with Very Few Cars on Them
About a month ago I wrote an article called Driving Out Of Town in Australia when I posted pictures of roads as I, you’ve guessed it, drove out of town. The towns, well cities, I drove out of were...
View ArticleWhy Most People Live on the East Coast of Australia Explained
A couple of weeks ago in my post called Things To Do In and Around Coffs Harbour I put up a photograph of Dangar Falls which are in Dorrigo. I also posted two photographs of The Great Dividing Range,...
View ArticleMount Tamborine: The Green Behind the Gold
Mount Tamborine is known as the ‘Green behind the Gold’ because it’s very green and is just behind the Gold Coast, which is very gold. Sort of makes sense, doesn’t it? It’s one of the wonders of...
View ArticleHow Many Towns and Cities in Australia and the UK Compared
We’ve done quite a lot of driving out of town recently. We first went Driving Out Of Town in Australia in January when we drove out of Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne. In February we drove out of Darwin...
View ArticleHeading North of Perth into Midwest Australia
When I spent 10 Days in Perth last year, the furthest north I got was a town called Yanchep. Here is a photograph of Yanchep Beach looking in a northerly direction… As much as I would have loved to...
View ArticleA Day on Macleay Island in Moreton Bay, Queensland
We are in the middle of a two-week school holiday break here in Australia at the moment. As usual, Mrs Bob and her friend Stacey are looking for things to do to keep the kids amused. On Wednesday of...
View ArticleWinter Holidays in Australia: The North Queensland Coast
Mrs Bob and I are thinking about booking our winter holidays for this year and wondering where to go. School winter holiday time here is around the last week in June and the first week in July, just...
View ArticleKangaroo Island, South Australia: What’s It Really like?
It’s the end of the week and as regular readers will know, I like to take a look around to see what’s been happening in Australia elsewhere. Then I like to include a YouTube video about it. Easy. So...
View ArticleThe Beaches of Brisbane: A Quick Tour
Before we go on a tour of Brisbane’s beaches, I want to show you some beaches close to Brisbane, but not in Brisbane. Firstly, just over an hour’s drive north, we have the Sunshine Coast. Here are some...
View ArticleAn Adelaide Timelapse and Flyover
It was quite some time ago when I went to Adelaide for a one-week break, just over five years in fact. I only wrote one post about it, called At Last; A Hot and Sunny Day in Australia. Yes, it was a...
View ArticleVivid Sydney 2016: Light, Music and Ideas
Friday is the day where I try and find out about something that is going on somewhere in Australia that I wouldn’t normally get to know about. Sometimes I don’t find anything, but that doesn’t mean...
View ArticleKunghur: The First in Our Series of Ninja-breaks
Ninja definition: a covert agent skilled in ninjutsu, a Japanese martial art characterized by stealthy movement. Ninja-break definition: a very short weekend break, where we leave at about midday on...
View ArticleNimbin: The Most Unusual Small Town in All of Australia
Once upon a time, back in the 60s, there was a dairy farm in an area known as the ‘Rainbow Region’, which is in part of The Great Dividing Range. This is a different part of The Great Dividing Range…...
View ArticleAnother Australian Road Trip: Brisbane to Port Douglas
As I mentioned in Fridays post, I’ve taken off on another Australian road trip. I also mentioned some concerns about the wild weather heading towards us over the weekend, so let’s get that out of the...
View ArticleThe Drive from Rockhampton to Mackay
If you have read either of my last two posts, you will know I’m currently on a road trip. Today, I thought I would clear up the ‘I’ bit, as in just me. So, what’s happened to Mrs Bob and Elizabeth?...
View ArticleTravelling through Airlie Beach: What I Missed
My road trip continues. Yesterday evening I arrived at Airlie Beach as I continued to meander my way towards Cairns. Tomorrow morning I will be leaving Airlie Beach to head off to Townsville. My visit...
View ArticleHideaway Bay, Queensland: A Small Slice of Paradise
Continuing my road trip, on Saturday morning I left Airlie Beach and headed further north. I was making my way towards Townsville, but I decided to build in a couple of stop offs along the way. The...
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