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…
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…
The theme for our travel pics this week is J, for Jungles (and rainforests) – and to start us off, Bamboo Creek at Innisfail, in Far North Queensland. Innisfail’s a small town about an hour south of the much-better-known Cairns, and is at the heart of what they call “The Great Green Way”. It is certainly worth spending a few…
I freely admit that I don’t know the ins-and-outs of fundraising. I’ve been a charity fundraiser, back in my days as a student, and I regularly give to charities of my choice – but I’m not entirely up to speed on the arcana of modern fundraising. However, I sometimes have to wonder if fundraisers have…
This ‘Thursday Thought’ is late this week because … well, no excuses. It’s just late. As will be the Friday Travel and Saturday Arts pieces. Sorry ’bout that. — There’s been an amazing outpouring of sentiment in recent days for Steve Jones. For those who live outside South-East Queensland, he was the mayor of the Lockyer…
The theme for our travel pics this week is E, for Eating. The genesis of this image may not seem unusual to our American readers but this is a real rarity in Australia – it is from one of the few remaining grocery-store diners left in the country. It used to be that at the capital-city…
The theme for our travel pics this week is B – for Bridges. Today, it’s the Sydney Harbour Bridge, often called The Coathanger by locals. The tallest single span arch bridge in the world, the Harbour Bridge was also the longest such bridge when it was built during the Great Depression. It is one of Australia’s…
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