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About Mike

A recently retired "Baby Boomer" , looking forward to having more time for my photography and travel.

The road to Birdsville

After Longreach I headed for Winton, and then westward to Boulia across the “Channel Country” and then south to Birdsville. Once you start heading west you know you are really “outback”, the country soon changes to endless flat plains broken … Continue reading

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Star trails

Boulia shire, way, way out in western Queensland has a tourist motto : “wide open horizons, magical night skies” For once, it’s not an exaggeration. As Banjo Paterson wrote in “Clancy of The Overflow”: And he sees the vision splendid … Continue reading

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Longreach

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Longreach is the self proclaimed “capital of the outback” so I suppose it is a fitting place for the Australian Stockmans’ Hall of Fame and Outback Museum ? I think it started off as just the Hall of Fame, but … Continue reading

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Back to the Outback

Well, beach time is over, and I’m back on the road on my way to Birdsville. After Cape tribulation and Mission beach I finished my beach bum days at Airlie Beach in the Whitsundays with a 3 day yacht trip … Continue reading

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What are they looking at ?

What’s this woman looking at ? And what’s this one measuring up ? And why has this one got her phone camera out ? It’s enough to put a guy off …. Some lavatory humour (or art ?) in the … Continue reading

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Hostel review – Mission Beach Retreat

Just a quick review of the “Mission Beach Retreat” YHA where I stayed recently. It is only a small place, around 30 beds, so it is a lot friendlier than most hostels, so the managers seemed to know every guests … Continue reading

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