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Bonaire – Southern Caribbean World Class Snorkeling Paradise

GUEST ARTICLE: Bonaire is a beautiful little island located in the Southern Caribbean and part of the Netherlands Antilles. We found this little gem by typing into Google ‘best snorkelling in the world’. Being avid snorkelers this place really caught our eye and after reading all the great reviews we knew we had [...]

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Anchorage Alaska – Explore Americas Northern Wilderness

GUEST ARTICLE: The short 3-hour flight it took us to fly from Vancouver, BC to Anchorage, Alaska was by far the most beautiful plane ride that we’ve ever been on. We were so lucky to have clear blue skies while flying over the giant snow capped Coast Mountains and the deep blue Pacific Ocean. [...]

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Argentina Patagonia Wilderness: Alpine Mountains, Valleys, Frozen Tundra Plateaus

GUEST ARTICLE: Argentine Patagonia, the southern corner of South America, offers travellers a full spectrum of wilderness experiences. From alpine mountain peaks and valleys, to frozen desert-like tundra plateaus that span for hundreds of miles, this region makes for hiking, road trip and photographic heaven.

Patagonia has always been a frontier land of Argentina, never experiencing [...]

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Overland Transport Argentina: Buses Better Than Flying

GUEST ARTICLE: Buses in Argentina. The sound of this (to most gringos) conjures up third-hand stories of tourists being sandwiched between farm animals, experiencing long delays, or being robbed in the middle of the night. However in our experience, this couldn’t be further from the truth.

El Chalten Valley photo credit: Nick Healy

In fact, after spending [...]

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Shotover Canyon Swing Creative Jumping Off a Cliff – Queenstown New Zealand (Review)

Queenstown is well known as the home of adventure and thrill seeking activities in the Asia Pacific region and Shotover Canyon Swing is one of the highlights.
I was in New Zealand earlier this year on a photo/video shoot expedition for Tourism New Zealand and had a spare day at the end so Destination Queenstown [...]

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Palau – Jelly Fish Lake Worlds Best Snorkeling Experience

GUEST ARTICLE: Palau or ‘Belau’ according to the Palauans is an island nation located in the Pacific about 500 miles east of the Philippines. It consists of some pretty unique sights like the Rock Islands that are made up of limestone and resemble large mushrooms. Palau is famous for its deliciously warm clear blue waters [...]

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Solomon Islands – Way The World Used to Be

GUEST ARTICLE: The airports in Solomon Islands may be very basic but they’re a gateway to places like the world used to be. The atmosphere was beautifully tranquil, and the scenery breathtaking and snorkeling in the warm waters revealed an amazing array of sea life.

The flight from Brisbane, Australia to Honiara, Solomons was pretty [...]

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Samoa – Truly a Tropical Paradise

GUEST ARTICLE: Talofa! (that’s hello in Samoan) Samoa is by far the best island we’ve been to so far with beautiful warm weather, brilliant coloured water, white sandy beaches, excellent reefs and delicious food! The people are super friendly and like the other islands have the most beautiful voices.

We were lucky to see a [...]

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Featured Photo – Refracted Rainbow From Mirror Onto Concrete

It is yet again a grey and rainy day in Sydney, Australia. Winter officially began a few days ago but the weather has been like this for much of the last 3 weeks. So I thought I’d feature a rainbow photo that is colourful and cheerful.

Refracted Rainbow From Mirror photo credit: Neerav Bhatt

Earlier this year [...]

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Stockton Sand Dunes: Great Day out North of Sydney

The wind-blown sand dunes of Stockton Beach comprise the largest continuous mobile sand mass in New South Wales, Australia and provide a great location for taking photos within 2 1/2 hours drive north of Sydney.
The grains of sand on Stockton Beach have been washed in from the sea and blown ashore to form dunes [...]

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Stewart Island, New Zealand: Southernmost Place Ive Ever Travelled

Stewart Island is New Zealand’s little known southern-most island and the closest southern landmass you can travel to be close to Antarctica besides the lower southern part of South America. Stewart Island can be accessed via a short fixed wing flight from the larger South Island town of Invercargill or a longer, but more economical [...]

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Photo + Video Highlights: Jules Lund New Zealand, Lower South Island

The following videos and photos are highlights from a whirlwind week long photo/video shoot of New Zealand’s lower South Island via Dunedin I was recently invited to join by Tourism New Zealand and Canon Australia.

Great Fun During Wairaurahiri Jetboat Trip photo credit: Jules Lund

Photos – New Zealand, Southern South Island Highlights (view Gallery)

Video – New [...]

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NASA Voyager I and II Spacecraft: Our Boldest Explorers Ever

Space is our Final Frontier. NASA’s Voyager I and II missions were supposed to last just 5 years from 1972-1977 exploring the outer planets of our solar system and yet they are still powering over 30 years later, continuing to transmit data to Scientists on Earth as they pass through interstellar space, exploring and boldly [...]

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Elm Wildlife Tours Dunedin: See Penguins, Fur Seals and Sea Lions Closeup (Review)

I’m a keen amateur photographer and love to see wildlife in it’s native environment so doing an Elm Wildlife Tour of the Otago Peninsula near Dunedin was one of the highlights of my recent whirlwind week exploring New Zealand South Island via Dunedin.

Otago Peninsula, New Zealand photo credit: Neerav Bhatt

The tour guides including Elm Wildlife [...]

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Montreux, Switzerland: Chateau de Chillon and Funicular overlooking Lake Geneva

GUEST ARTICLE: For music lovers, Montreux is famous for it’s chilled beats during the annual Jazz Festival. For the rest of us, the enduring beauty of Lake Geneva (Lac Léman in French) is what provides this small Swiss Riviera resort town with it’s enduring magnetism.

The approach from the Swiss-Italian border on the high-speed Cisalpino [...]

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