When the travel agent said accommodation in Hobart was unusually scarce little did she know the biennial Australian Wooden Boat Festival* was the…

After 7 weeks of 30° plus every day and wall to wall sunshine, my personal heatwave breaks.  Stepping off the plane in Launceston…

‘Are you heading to Straddle whilst you’re here?’  If I’d heard that once…  So after consulting the internet, I arrive at the ferry…

Cairns and Airlie Beach were hot, but arriving further south in Brisbane there’s no let up.  The thermometer dips below 30° at night,…

(posting this after the event has a certain poignancy as I’m in New Zealand listening to the rain storm of another ex-Cyclone hammering…

Today is more my bag.  I join a large sailing catamaran to head out to the reef.  I’m not a diver, but I…