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The Tragic Tale of Easter Island (Rapa Nui)

Easter Island would be on most people’s lists of remote places to travel to, with the obvious attraction of seeing the famous Moai (statues)
I decided to write an article about Easter Island after reading Gary Arndt’s travel blog where he reflects on how remote Easter Island is:
Easter Island Moai (by Gary Arndt on Flickr)
One thing [...]

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Farina: Ruined Ghost Town – Oodnadatta Track, South Australia

28 km north of Lyndhurst is the ghost town of Farina, now nothing more than a fascinating collection of ruins with the surrounding countryside littered with old drays, wheels and rusting pieces of equipment.

It is strange, while wandering around the ruins, to think that people once made their homes here and hoped to grow [...]

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Lyndhurst Talc Alf Carvings – Oodnadatta Track

Talc Alf – Lyndhurst – Talc carvings
Driving north from the Flinders Ranges towards Coober Pedy on the Oodnadatta Track you’ll come across the small town of Lyndhurst at the crossroads of the Strzelecki Track and see a sign directing you to “Talc Alf” located a few kilometres out of Lyndhurst on the Innaminka Road.
Talc [...]

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Ochre Cliffs – Oodnadatta Track – South Australian Outback

Five kilometres north of Lyndhurst on the Oodnadatta Track in the South Australian Outback you’ll see a tyre beside the road with the words ‘Ochre Cliffs’ crudely written on it.
Follow the side-road for a few kilometres and you’ll suddenly see an open ochre quarry containing spectacular red, brown and white ochre cliffs (an exposure of [...]

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Antarctica: Encounters at the End of the World (Documentary)

In “Encounters at the End of the World” documentary maker Werner Herzog travels to Antarctica accompanied only by his cameraman and is given unprecedented access to the hidden society of one thousand men and women living there and risking their lives and sanity to conduct cutting-edge scientific research.

Starting from McMurdo station which reminds him of [...]

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Unique Road Less Travelled Photo T-shirts For Sale

I now sell quality photo t-shirts with a Road Less Travelled theme featuring great photographs by myself and other photographers
Road Less Travelled Tshirts
As an example this is my own Road Less Travelled t shirt with the “Footprints in the Desert” design to show you what your tshirt can look like in real life.

Road Less Travelled [...]

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Rainbow Lorikeet in my garden – Free Desktop Wallpaper

Download a free 1024×768 resolution desktop wallpaper photo of a Rainbow Lorikeet in my garden
Download Instructions

Click on the preview photo
When the full size photo is displayed from the Picasa web album – click on Download Photo in the right-hand side menu and Save

Rainbow Lorikeet in my garden

Camera: Panasonic FZ20
Wallpaper format: JPG 729 Kb in size
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Memorable Fox Glacier Helihike – South Island New Zealand

My Fox Glacier Helihike departed from the chartered helicopter helipad at 0945 & returned at 1300. It was the highlight of my trip to NZ South Island and I will remember it forever.
At several $100/person Yes it is expensive but it was definitely worth the cost unlike the money I wasted on the Tranz [...]

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Cute Baby Green Frog Sitting on Finger – Free Desktop Wallpaper

Download a free desktop wallpaper photo of a cute baby green frog sitting on the finger of Guest Photographer Cameron J Galipo.
I was looking at the best of 2007 photo submissions from a group of Australian photographers when I saw this photo from Cameron and it completely blew me away with its mixture of monochrome [...]

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Worlds Largest Aircraft Graveyard: Tucson Arizona (USA)

The 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group located at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona is the biggest aircraft graveyard in the world.
“The Boneyard” as it is often called was created in 1946 to store some surplus DoD and navy planes but eventually grew to become the storage area for all out-of-service U.S. government [...]

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Camels at Sunset on Cable Beach, Broome, Western Australia – Free Desktop Wallpaper

Download a free 1024×768 resolution desktop wallpaper photo of Camels at Sunset on Cable Beach, Broome, Western Australia.
In late 2003 I travelled up the West Australian Coast from Perth to Broome, where I took a camel ride with Ships of the Desert.
Download Instructions

Click on the preview photo
When the full size photo is displayed from the [...]

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Face to Face: Our Endangered Primate Cousins

credit: tashiya

Writing about the plight of our primate cousins the orangutans, gorillas and chimps has been on my todo list for a while so when I heard that the Australian Museum was featuring the “Face to Face” exhibition created by the Natural History Museum, London I immediately made time in my schedule to see [...]

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Find Out Time and Date In Another City Or Country

www.timeanddate.com is a great resource for finding out time and date related information for any major city or country around the world:

Whether you’re Checking the date and time for international business conference calls. For example it allows you to pick up to 4 cities on the planet and compare times for a web meeting or [...]

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Why 4WD / SUVs are Terrible Family Cars

Mothers have started to swarm in tightly organised groups of 200,000 or so toward the 4WD off-road car. Really and truly it’s hard to think of a more inappropriate selection of family cars.
I tell you people who have off road cars [in the city] are stupid and mad. They should be driven from the roads [...]

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Kopi Luwack : Extreme Coffee in Sumatra

It’s the most exotic, rare and expensive coffee in the world. Kopi Luwack which comes from the dung of the Common Palm Civet or Luwack is so rare some believe it doesn’t exist.
Much of the coffee which can sell for more than $50 dollars a cup in New York, Hong Kong or Tokyo has been [...]

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