Here’s the ninth episode of Rear View Microphone – the weekly podcast covering Travel, and Tourism, and Cruising, and Communications, and Arts and Entertainment, and Politics and more … This week – in cruise news Bali terror threats stop ships from sailing to the Indonesian holiday hotspot; in arts news, we look at recycling ideas; in…
The theme for our travel pics this week has been J, for Jungles (and rainforests) – and for Sunday, we are at Lifou, in the Loyalty Islands of New Caledonia. The island is a raised coral atoll, or makatea – and is a truly glorious spot. It’s covered with rainforest, except where it has been cleared for agriculture,…
The theme for our travel pics this week is J, for Jungles (and rainforests) – and for Saturday, we head to the Mamu Rainforest Walk, on the Palmerston Highway in Far North Queensland. Run by the local Mamu indigenous people, this is a skywalk – a raised walk through the rainforest canopy, and is part of the…
We finally got around to watching ‘Mad Max – Fury Road’ last night (yeah, yeah, I know its been out for ages .. but you get that sometimes) It’s not my intention to review the movie (except to say it was lots of fun, lots of ‘splosions, plot holes big enough to drive a War…
We are currently planning significant trip to United States later this year – and it’s interesting to note the differences as well as the similarities. On this trip, we are going to travel nearly 4500km by land – that’s the equivalent of a loop from my home city of Brisbane, via Sydney, down to Melbourne,…
The theme for our travel pics this week is J, for Jungles (and rainforests) – and for Friday, it’s Tivua island, in Fiji. One of the Mamanuca islands off Viti Levu, Tivua is a pretty little coral cay that is used as a day-trip for tourists from Nadi. It’s small enough to walk around in 20 minutes,…
OK, folks – quick quiz time: complete this saying: “Pride goeth before….” If you said “a fall”, you’d be wrong. And yet almost everyone would say that. The actual quote is “Pride goes before DESTRUCTION, and a haughty spirit before a fall” (Proverbs 16:18) – but we almost always shorten the verse. It’s a…
The theme for our travel pics this week is J, for Jungles (and rainforests) – and for Thursday, we return to Innisfail in Far North Queensland. No matter what time of the year, and no matter where you look, there’s always a lush, green canopy surrounding Innisfail. This image is of a Frangipani tree (also know in…
Money may seem like the main motivator for many people – but what if it’s not? What if there are other ‘first-order’ motivators that we ignore at our peril? I’ve just come from a meeting where a speaker pointed out that extrinsic motivators like money, fame, and praise are all important – but beyond a certain point,…
The theme for our travel pics this week is J, for Jungles (and rainforests) – and for Wednesday, it’s Martinique, in the sunny Caribbean sea. An island in the Lesser Antilles, this is a French Overseas Department – meaning that is is a little slice of France, and locals are French citizens with the same rights…
Cairns Communications 