Here are my top 50 favourite photos from last week’s five-day jaunt across Victoria in Australia. This was thanks to Tourism Victoria and the Herald On Sunday and was a fun revelation in terms of all the other things to see in the state beyond Melbourne. As for Melbourne itself, it’s undeniably one of the…
Category: Australia
Posing On The Central Coast & The Blue Mountains – Australia 2011
A couple of days ago, talk turned with Aussie friends of mine about a 2015 reunion. I met Swanny and Rach (now because of marriage, Swanny and Swanny?) in Vietnam in 2008 and we’ve stayed in touch ever since. A highlight was undoubtedly being asked to MC their wedding in March of 2013. While we…
The Most Fun Job Ever – My Top 30 Whitsunday Islands Photos 2010-2011
On Friday’s episode of The Two (Pam Corkery / Tim Roxborogh – Newstalk ZB) amidst the usual mix of politics and general topicality, we were talking about the most fun job you’d ever had. A list had just been published by the New Zealand Herald of the most fun jobs in the world – including…
The World’s Largest Sand Island – Herald On Sunday Article To Queensland’s Fraser Island – 25 Favourite Photos
Here is the link to my latest Herald On Sunday travel article, published today and all about the largest sand island in the world, Fraser Island in Queensland. Fraser Island is three times the size of Singapore and is dotted with freshwater lakes, covered in rainforest and home to Australia’s purest-bred dingo population. There’s also…
Where To Stay In Sydney & Melbourne If You Love Historic Hotels
Melbourne’s Hotel Windsor. Yesterday the Herald On Sunday published two of my articles in a very swish looking two-page spread. I’ve been ducking across the Tasman a bit lately and figured it might be fun to seek out a couple of not just luxurious hotels, but places with genuine points of difference. Click here for…
Barry Gibb Mythology Tour Concert Review – Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne
Barry Gibb at Rod Laver Arena, February 12. Because one Barry Gibb concert was never going to be enough, I decided to jump across to Melbourne for a whirlwind couple of nights to see the second most successful songwriter in music history* play Rod Laver Arena just 11 nights before he’ll be here in New…
‘The GC’ – Shame On You NZ On Air!
Shame, shame, shame on you New Zealand On Air. Like everyone with half a brain in this country, I find it appalling that New Zealand On Air used tax-payer money to fund a show as disastrously vacuous at The GC. A misplaced point mentioned by some on my Newstalk ZB talkback show was, “if you…
In Search Of Lindeman Island’s Mythical Waterfall – My Return To The Whitsundays
Since finishing my contract with Club Med as their sound engineer/DJ in the Whitsundays, Queensland, I’ve spent the last two months seeing friends and family in Sydney, the Central Coast, Melbourne and Brisbane. While awaiting my posting with Princess Cruises as an Assistant Cruise Director, I had a couple of weeks up my sleeve and decided…
One Year Of Adventures In One (Longish) Paragraph
Exactly one year ago today I flew from Auckland to Bangkok having closed a chapter on 11 years of working for The Radio Network, 10 years of living in my downtown apartment and 20 years of life in New Zealand. With a childhood spent in Malaysia I’ve often felt the pull back to South…
Climbing Lindeman Island’s Mt Oldfield For 360 Degree Views Of The Whitsundays
One of the best things you can do in the Whitsundays is to climb one of the many peaks for views over the more than 70 islands clustered just a short boat ride from the mainland. Be that as it may, I’d say that more than half the staff here at Club Med, Lindeman Island…
Lindeman Island, Whitsundays 2011: Surviving Two Cyclones, An Evacuation And An Unexpected Return
Right now is the first time in more than a week I’ve been able just to stop, relax and think about what has been happening. Granted, on one of the days in the past week I was being saved not from cyclones but from baddies and mock-collapsing subways by Superman and Batman at the Movie…
Just Who Or What Is Glenn’s Dance?
Click here to link to Glenn’s Dance Glenn’s Dance is a new blog I’m collaborating on and this is the rundown according to the site’s ecstatic welcome note: Starring a Club Med set designer, this website is where you can enjoy the unique and at times controversial dancing of Glenn Davis, a phenomenon which takes…