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How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful: Sky and Ocean Converge on Queensland’s Moreton Island
BETWEEN two worlds life hovers like a star,
’Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge.
How little do we know that which we are!
How less what we may be! The eternal surge
Of time and tide rolls on, and bears afar
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Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun: Uluru, Katja-Tjuta and Alice Springs
Uluru is the spiritual heart of Australia. The giant monolith rises out of the red sand, pulsing its strange beauty across the desert, making us question our own significance and truly ponder the passage of time. Because of its inaccessibility, […]
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Lost in Time: A Journey through Southeast Queensland’s Mystical Glass House Mountains
The Glass House Mountains are located about an hour’s drive north of Brisbane and are composed of eleven iconic rocky hills or volcanic plugs. Remnants of volcanoes active over 25 million years ago were named the ‘Glass Houses’ in 1770 […]
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Walking Through Poetry: Four Days in Hobart, Tasmania
Despite its isolation and size, the southernmost Australian city—and smallest state capital, Hobart—feels more English than any other place on the mainland.
Rolling hills and ocean vistas, old stone walls and Georgian cottages, ship masts scraping the sky of the harbour, […]
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Castles Made of Sand: Peace, Quiet and Child’s Play on Queensland’s Bribie Island
I watched from a dune as my children played below, the beach quiet and empty, the ocean clear and calm. The bright morning sunlight glowed in their shiny hair, they dug holes, built walls and were peacefully oblivious to anything […]