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  • Crabtastic

    I got lost driving home today. To be fair, this was the first time I’ve ever driven a car there myself, I haven’t lived there for eighteen years and there’s a whole new road in-between. Still, it was a little embarrassing seeing as this was the same route my high school bus followed every day…

  • A Good Friday at Greatish Keppel Island

    When most tourists think of Queensland they probably imagine a tropical paradise with islands, white sandy beaches, clear blue water and coral reefs. And they probably imagine themselves enjoying it all from some luxurious resort. The beaches of the Capricorn Coast are grey-brown with coarse sand and crushed shells. You cannot snorkel off the beach…

  • From Gladstone to Yeppoon

    When I was a kid my holiday accommodation almost always involved a caravan, tent or farm cottage. So it was a rare treat to stay in a motel on my first visit to Gladstone all those years ago. The Mercure was definitely a few steps above that motel, from my vague memories of it. Unlike…

  • Not glad, not stoned, just Gladstone

    People fly for many reasons. Some fly for work, some because they seek adventure. Others fly just for the joy of being in the air. And some fly because they have no choice. That’s me right now. It’s been a long time since I last visited my family in Central Queensland, six and a half…

  • Stormxiety

    The storm overhead is already waning. Despite the white flashes of lightning, loud thunder marking it close, I can already see a sliver of dusk orange on the horizon where minutes before it a dark and solid grey. It was an altogether larger storm that lead to a change of destination for this week. With…

  • Escaping the flood

    It looks like the city of Rockhampton in Central Queensland is about to suffer its worst floods in over sixty years. The airport will shut in a couple of days before the flood waters peak. Last time that happened it didn’t reopen for two weeks, which means our upcoming Easter trip there would be cancelled.…

  • Racing south to Jurassic Park

    Jurassic Park. Performed live by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. I had to go. Fly? Too expensive for the three of us for such a short trip. Train? Schedules don’t work. Bus? Too horrible for that distance. That leaves driving. Back when B and I were first dating and she was in Albury and I in…

  • Out of the fridge and into the frying pan

    We’ve arrived home and it’s hotter than a Japanese hotel room. The scary thing is that it’s not even that hot for Sydney this summer and is forecast to be 38 degrees Celsius in a couple of days. It was a typical final day in Japan, which is to say a bit miserable and a…

  • Driving cars and the Miraikan

    Our last morning in Japan for this trip and I’m feeling anxious about the flight back. I hate these final days, again wishing that yesterday’s Tokyo Teleport station was true to its name. If the flight home is less bumpy than yesterday’s visit to Odaiba then I will be happy indeed. We were early to…

  • Rotten eggs and ropeways

    Ah, the fresh mountain air! It smells so, well, smelly. Alright, who farted? Even in the little mountain train ride up we could smell the scent of hydrogen sulphide, aka rotten egg gas. But here we were on the high slopes of Mount Iwakudani where great clouds of steam and gas rose out of the…