When I went to Exmouth in 2006, Pete, our suffering tour guide, said it had been a nuclear target when the US base was there. I asked, ‘If they dropped a nuclear bomb on Exmouth, how would anyone notice?’ I take my words back. When I was there in August, I loved lots about it….
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Aug
Times I’ve been to Far North Queensland: 12 Times I’ve been to the Great Barrier Reef: 0 Times I’ve been to Cairns Central Shopping Centre: 2 Times I’ve been to Coral Bay: 2 Times I’ve been to Ningaloo Reef: 2 If I were you, I’d want me to provide proof. This is from a glass-bottom…
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Aug
I feel very lucky to be on a road trip right now. We spent the first two nights in Kalbarri – enough time to see the new Skywalk. The Governor popped in to see it while we were there, but I thought it would have been a bit paparazzi-ish and not at all classy to…
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Aug
In the early nineties, I spent Easter weekends at the Separation Point Caravan Park in Geraldton, sleeping in tents and using the ablution block’s rather basic facilities. Not the most comforting way to recover from an evening at Los Amigos Mexican Restaurant, also known as Loss-o Memory. In the time since, I’ve stayed in a…
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Aug
I was wrong. Entering Chile, to visit Torres del Paine National Park, 2005. This is what I found when I got past American capitalism:
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Aug
… from the ATM near their gift shop in the Capitol! Though not recently.
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Jul
It seems to have first been called Queen Street during the reign of James I, so it could really have been named after his wife – Anne of Denmark – though if the stories are true, it might have been named after James himself!
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Jul
In Sydney, a building with two guys arm-in-arm called The Beat Museum would probably cover something quite different, In San Francisco, it was about ‘The Beats, as in beaten down and beatific … a collective of writers, artists and thinkers that congregated in 1950s San Francisco’, including Jack Kerouac.
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Jul
