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Australia

Crocosaurus Cove Darwin (Review)

I recently visited Crocosaurus Cove during a 48 hour trip to Darwin as a guest of Tourism NT.
While it’s main purpose is obviously to showcase crocodiles big and small what impressed me equally about Crocosaurus Cove was the wide range of Australian reptiles on display and If I’d had more time instead of doing underwater [...]

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Photo Gallery – Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex, Tidbinbilla

Earlier this week I visited NASA’s Canberra Deep Space Communication Complex (CDSCC) located at Tidbinbilla, 40min drive from Canberra in the Australian Capitol Territory (ACT). CDSCC’s radio telescopes provide continuous radio contact with spacecraft exploring the Solar System and beyond such as Cassini (Saturn), twin Exploration Rovers (Mars), Messenger spacecraft (Mercury), New Horizons spacecraft (Pluto) [...]

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Outpost Project – Street Art Exhibition Cockatoo Island, Sydney (Review)

I’m a fan of thoughtful street art that isn’t just mindless tagging of a name over and over again like the mural in Chippendale, Sydney “knowledge breaks down walls”. So when I heard that the biggest street art exhibition in the Southern Hemisphere was being shown on Cockatoo Island I arranged to go there after [...]

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48 hours in Darwin, Northern Territory – Photo Highlights

I recently visited Darwin, the capital city of Australia’s Northern Territory during the Buildup season in late October as a guest of Tourism NT, along with several other journalists. I’ve visited Darwin before on holiday so was able to plan ahead and decided that I wanted to focus my photography on the outdoor markets and [...]

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Red Centre Northern Territory – Australian Outback Photo Highlights

I’m flying to Darwin tomorrow as a guest of Tourism Northern Territory (Tourism NT) with a group of other journalists and that reminded me of my backpacking trip through the Red Centre of Australia in the Northern Territory a few years ago.
Checking back through this Road Less Traveled website I realised that I hadn’t [...]

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Australia Land of Parrots documentary (Bluray/DVD Review)

Australia is a land of parrots. They live across the country in a variety of climates and over 2 dozen of them by my count are shown in this excellent Australia Land of Parrots documentary narrated by famous actor Colin Friels, co-produced by the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) and PBS TV in the USA.

The aerial [...]

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Panoramic Photos: Kimberley region, Western Australia

I took a lot of great photos in the Kimberley region of Western Australia during my roadtrip but it’s hard to convey the size of the place and what the landscape all around you looks like with one photo. That’s why I also took several panoramic photos during the trip to show you a wider [...]

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Photo Slideshow: Kimberleys Western Australia Roadtrip

I was asked by Adventure Wild – Kimberleys, Western Australia outback tour operators and Tourism WA to take photos and videos for them of the Northern remote Kimberleys area.
I will upload my initial selection of photos to my Flickr Photo Sharing account when I have the chance every few days (mobile internet access is not [...]

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Kimberleys Western Australia Roadtrip Map: Spot 2 Satellite Messenger and Tracker

I was asked by Tourism WA and Adventure Wild outback tour operators to take photos and videos for them of the Northern remote Kimberleys area. I will write related articles about the trip for ABC Technology Online, this Road Less Traveled website and several travel technology reviews for GEARE magazine including a Spot Satellite Messenger [...]

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Tasmania Photo Roadtrip: Hobart, Freycinet, Bicheno, Bay of Fires, Cradle Mountain

During the Christmas holidays I did a Tasmanian Photography Roadtrip: from Hobart to Wineglass Bay in Freycinet Peninsula, the fiery red lichen-covered granite boulders of Bicheno and the Bay of Fires to Cradle Mountain’s Dove Lake, Wombats and Wallabies and back to Hobart just in time to see the Aurora Australis Icebreaker ship before it [...]

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FREE Sydney Public Transport Trip Planner: Train, Bus & Ferry

The Sydney Public Transport Trip planner is probably my most frequently used website for planning social outings or meetings for work.
It’s the best way to plan a trip on public transport in Sydney, whether by Train, Bus or Ferry or a mixture of methods allowing you to state exactly when you want to leave [...]

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Cute Wombats: Close Up Photos and Video

I was lucky enough to see several Tasmanian wombats (Vombatus ursinus tasmaniensis) during a recent holiday to Cradle Mountain in Tasmania and this was the highlight of the trip because I love to see native wildlife living in their natural environment.
Prior to that the only Wombats I’d seen were at the zoo or roadkill in [...]

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Cairns – Tropical North Queensland and Great Barrier Reef

GUEST ARTICLE: Hello from the North of Australia ~ Cairns! We arrived in tropical paradise after a quick 3 hour flight from Sydney picked up our car rental and headed to our hotel located about 30 minutes north of Cairns in a beautiful little town called Palm Cove.

Our first adventure was on the Foaming [...]

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Australian Museum: Wildlife Photographer of the Year Exhibit (Review)

Each year I return to the new summer exhibition at the Australian Museum and marvel at the skill of the photographers whose work is displayed in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year photography exhibition. In 2003 I lived for a year in the UK and saw that years Wildlife Photographer exhibition at London’s Natural History [...]

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Video: Strong Winds Change Sand Dune Colour and Texture

Did you know sand dunes look like they’re changing colour and texture during strong winds? they’re really beautiful.
I’ve visited Stockton Sand Dunes several times. The last time I visited I recorded a video of me taking a peaceful walk alone across a big dune against strong sandstorm winds which blew sand in the air [...]

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