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This blog offers tips and tricks for simply *highlighting your holiday adventures* without the bore of writing a tome of a journal, or spending hours scrapbooking.
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Widest Waterfall in Australia ? Millstream Falls
From Journey Jottings, 1 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Millstream Falls is reputedly the widest single drop waterfall in Australia.
It is situated less than 5km from Ravenshoe (Queensland’s highest town) on the Atherton Tablelands in Australia’s tropical north, or…?as the sign below points out:
718km as the crow flies from Mt Isa
1,376km from Alice Springs in the red centre
1,704km from Coober Pedy in South Australia, or
1,780km from Darwin in the Northern Territory
The Millstream Valley was created more than 3 million years...
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Kangaroos & Emus ? Seeing Australia's National Emblems
From Journey Jottings, 2 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
When on a road trip in Oz, there are certain Australian icons
one not only hopes to see, but expects to see.
Like classic Australian road signs not encountered in other parts of the world…
To heritage icons relating to European settlement, such as station homesteads established by pioneering explorers…
…and their introduced farming livestock
And hints of an outback way of life reflected by little signs such as this ‘hutch’ placed?on the roadside at...
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Milk & Beer in Malanda ? the Heart of the Atherton Tablelands
From Journey Jottings, 3 weeks ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
After days travelling in Central Australia over miles of red dirt and endless plains…
…we turned left at Charters Towers (135 km short of hitting the east coast) in tropical north Queensland
and entered the lush green world of the Atherton Tablelands.
?What a different landscape!
Malanda, our destination, is?synonymous with milk and cheese, and when you see this verdant landscape, it oozes contented cows.
In 1908?John English (the Malanda Hotel’s first publican) along with...
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7 Super Shots' Dream, Drool & ? Dump
From Journey Jottings, 1 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
I’ve been tagged!
Tagged by RedNomaOz of Amazing Australian Adventures?to take part in HostelBookers 7 Super Shots travel blogging game.
If you had to sum up your most amazing travel experiences in just seven photos, could you do it'
Well…
No!
Travel is about experiences and one photo rarely tells the whole story, so in a few cases I’ve had to cheat and post two
A photo that'takes my breath away
Nature’s monolithic?magnificence.
No image (or pre-conception) of...
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Deadlines Are Lifesavers
From Journey Jottings, 1 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Deadlines send shivers down my spine.
Why'
It's not the deadline itself.?The finish line is where all the glory happens ? and it's time for celebration.
But if you have a deadline, you also have to start.?And that's the wriggle worthy part. Where the true discomfort lays ~
It’s the start-line
~?more than the dead-line.
The start-line is where procrastination frequently raises its head. And it's a disappointing fact that procrastination can trump enthusiasm.
I've had a product that I've...
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Monsters of the Outback' Road Trains
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Have you driven Australia’s remote outback roads'
Long and seemingly endless, they’re bordered by an expanse of bush?vegetation that imperceptibly?changes until there’s a sudden realisation you’re driving through a different vegetation zone.
(More endless outback road images can be had?in my?Barkly Tablelands?post )
Some might call the landscape monotonous, but sitting back at the wheel of your vehicle of choice, free of any manic city traffic, it’s an amazing...
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Charters Towers ? Victorian Heritage
From Journey Jottings, 1 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Charters Towers?in 1890 was Queensland’s second largest town (population 30,000) and referred to by locals as ‘the World‘, due to its cosmopolitan nature and the fact that anything one might desire was there, so why travel anywhere else!
In 1907 Charters Towers was proclaimed a city.
Today, about 8,000 people call Charters Towers home
(Charters Towers is 1,350km/850miles north west of Brisbane; 135km/85 miles inland from Townsville).
The story goes that on?Christmas?eve 1871...
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Wagging Work' or, Seize the Day!
From Journey Jottings, 1 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
Yesterday started like any other Monday at our Journey Jottings island office.?
Phil, our Customer Service Manager,?was making telephone calls to some of our 500 or so retailers across Australia to see how stocks were going. Updating records in the database, creating invoices and putting them out ready for packing and despatch via Australia Post.
I was responding to emails about our Newsletter that was published over the weekend, and was about to go to the warehouse to check on stock...
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The Expanse of the Barkly Tableland
From Journey Jottings, 2 month ago, Read 0 times. Similar articles
The Barkly Tableland covers 21% of the Northern Territory in a swathe from Mount Isa just east of the Queensland/NT border, west to Daly Waters.
After a night camping at the Devils Marbles?under a waning full moon (having spent the evening light exploring the rock formations scattered across these beautiful 1,800 hectares of Australian outback) we turned out early the following morning to soak up the sunrise.
The Australian bush is full of unexpected delights – When your eye first scans...
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Devils Marbles
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The Devils Marbles (Karlu Karlu) are located on the Stuart Highway, 400km north of Alice Springs and 100 km south of Tennant Creek, in the Northern Territory.
The first known reference to the name ‘Devils Marbles’ was by John Lewis in 1872 during the construction of the overland Telegraph line – His account reads:
“We passed through?extraordinary?shaped stones in the Davenport Range. The country was of granite formation and many of these stones were round like marbles....
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