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Remote Places & Round the World Trips

What Lies Beneath Ocean Surface: New Submersibles Explore Hidden Depths

The Earth is 70% water, yet mankind has never traveled to the planet’s deepest point, and has encountered only around 10% of what lives down there. New submersible technology is about to change that.

‘‘I’d like to be, under the sea, in an octopus’s garden, in the shade…” Child-orientated Ringo song this may have been, but [...]

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Robert Falcon Scott’s Last Expedition – Australian National Maritime Museum special exhibition (Review)

I just visited an excellent special exhibition about Robert Falcon Scott’s Last Expedition at the Australian National Maritime Museum (ANMM). This free exhibition is open from 17 June – 16 October 2011 and it’s well worth making a trip to the ANMM located in Darling Harbour, Sydney and taking an hour or two to explore [...]

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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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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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Banff Mountain Film Festival Australian Tour (Review) Real Raw Outdoor Adventuring

I just got home from seeing the Banff Mountain Film Festival screening at Sydney’s Seymour Centre during its tour of Australia. At a time when there are many “travel/outdoor adventure” shows on TV (several of which are “less than honest”), this is one of those rare film experiences that really can be called marvelous because [...]

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Going Postal (Book Review) The Ups and Downs of Travelling the World on a Postie Bike By Nathan Millward

According to the Urban Dictionary “Going Postal” was originally coined from a series of real life shootings in the US postal service. It now usually means that someone is about to go nuts or off the deep end so it’s an apt name for this autobiographical account of travelling from Sydney to London on a [...]

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Potosi, Bolivia: Roof of the world in the Americas

GUEST ARTICLE: Windswept blood-red plains of volcanic rock, ash and acidic lakes that support no life – sounds more like an alien landscape than the middle of a continent home to the Amazon basin but this is southern Bolivia. I don’t know how this place missed out on everyday discussion about Top Ten Places to [...]

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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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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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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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Petrol Station in Slowly Dying Outback Australia Town

GUEST ARTICLE: When travelling through outback Queensland I always try to take the time to turn of the highway into the small towns that dot the country side.
These days the roads no longer go through these towns which are slowly dying as people travel past them on highways at 110kph.

The photo above is from [...]

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How to Survive in the Australian Outback (ABC Landline)

Landline is ABC TV’s national rural issues program. This week’s Landline episode is all about how to survive in the Australian outback. I’ll be watching the show and adding the top tips to improve your safety when travelling in the outback to this review.

I love to travel, especially to remote places off the beaten track [...]

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