Tag: travel
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Historic Bathurst, NSW
We did something quite unusual on New Year’s Day taking an 8hr road trip to Sydney, NSW to visit our family for a late Christmas catchup . The roads were reasonably quiet which was a great help. We stopped overnight in Cowra in southern NSW to break up the trip. It was a warm summer’s…
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Zig Zagging in the Blue Mountains, NSW
We visited our family in Sydney back in October on one special day we decided to go for a stream train ride. We had been talking about do this trip for some years and finally did it. A great family experience. Touring at the Zig Zag Railway near Lithgow. This BP 218 engine was built…
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Norfolk Island Trip Rap Up
Here is a snapshop of some images from our September 2025 visit. Our bird list was fairly limited. eBird records shows 132 species have been observed. We visited before the main migrating shorebirds, but we still saw lots of interesting new birds. The Island is an important stopover point on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway look…
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The Joys of Train Travel
We have had a wonderful time experiencing slow touring between Wangaratta and Sydney, visiting family. It’s an 8hr journey, with a rather slow section between Cootamundra and Harden as the train meanders through the quiet countryside of southern NSW. We passed through a rural landscape that in parts could be English, with weeping willows along…
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Discover Winton Wetlands: 6th August 2025
This large area of public land at Winton, Victoria is managed by the Victorian Government for conservation purposes. The original Winton Swamp system made up of some 13 small wetland areas totalling about 7000Hectares was taken over by the state government in 1971 and flooded to create Lake Mokoan for a irrigation storage. This resulted…
Walking Glenrowan and Beyond 