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Queensland Road trip to Misty Paluma Range

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What better way to celebrate Australia Day than with our favourite kind of journey – a Queensland road trip? When January 26th arrived all hot and steamy, our minds turned to Paluma Range, 71km north of Townsville. The Nywaigi (traditional indigenous owners) called the Paluma Range Munan Gumburuup. Unsurprisingly this translates to Misty Mountain and …

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Kampot Sunset at The Front

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On arrival in Kampot, CAMBODIA after a long, dusty and break-down riddled bus journey from Battambang, we rapidly started reappraising the length of our stay.  Our pre-arrival booking for two nights first extended by one day, and then another as we re-shuffled a schedule that was at best loosely shuffled to begin with. Kampot days were …

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A Christmas Feast for Australian Parrots and Black Cockatoos

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Living in North Queensland means we get to see plenty of Australian birdlife. There are Australian Parrots and Black Cockatoos like the ones shown below.  The birds of North Queensland are enjoying a Christmas Feast especially for them. Rainbow Lorikeets are Australian native parrots that love the pink blooms on Euodia Trees – the same …

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Visit Radical Bay Magnetic Island Just 20 minutes from Townsville North Queensland

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Radical Bay Magnetic Island was once home to the low key Radical Bay resort – I visited it as a teenager in the 1970’s.  There has been talk of the bay being re-developed but none of the plans have passed Council and so the privately owned access road has fallen into disrepair. Read about it …

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Tuesday in Townsville – Cape Cleveland

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The weather in our home town of TOWNSVILLE has not been that good this Winter.  Usually Townsville which sits inside Cape Cleveland in North Queensland has perfect blue skies, lovely warm days and cool nights.  The thought of Winter is cherished while we are melting away in the heat and humidity of summer.  When winter arrives …

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Tuesday in Townsville: Boating and Clouds

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Two of my favourite activities in Townsville are Boating and Cloud Watching, and on Saturday I got to do both on a family fishing trip. B.H., Matt and I launched the boat while the sun was just a golden glow on the horizon, and motored slowly out of Ross Creek, through the breakwater and port …

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Florence Bay on Magnetic Island

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Florence Bay Magnetic Island has a tropical sandy beach, fringed by She Oak trees whose needle like leaves filter the sun and let the ocean breezes through. On week-ends Florence Bay is sprinkled with yachts and power boats, an indication of it’s safe anchorage and inshore coral reef.  On week days you could well be …

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Tuesday in Townsville Focus on the Clouds

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After a recent photographic post on a SUNSET DRIVE HOME I have noticed that Townsville skies have been stunning.  Lately I have started to focus on the clouds themselves as they have been beautiful in their own right. After a restorative long week-end spent camping at our favourite WATER SKI SPOT with friends and family, …

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