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If you’re ever visiting Australia, you’ll see plenty of large black and white birds in rural and urban areas cruising around, often raiding rubbish bins for food. The Australian White Ibis (scientific name Threskiornis molucca) has unfortunately, picked up the nickname of Bin Chickens. You might fight with them for Read more…
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Australia is definitely and outdoors country. Well, being a country/continent means there’s a lot of bush, or otherwise, what I call ‘impressive nothing’. One of the best things of being outside in the Australian outdoors is bushwalking – assuming that you’re not nailed by a nasty like a poisonous spider Read more…
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Whenever you visit Australia, the one thing you’ll notice when you check out the place is how sports mad the entire country is – whatever the season! There’s always some form of sport in Australia going on – both professional and amateur – that’s happening at a ground somewhere near Read more…
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I think most of us in the English speaking world has used the term ‘Shit Happens’. It’s a common slang phrase that occurs in plenty of English-speaking countries (for example, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Ireland) meaning that events (especially ones that are rather unfortunate) occur every day, all the Read more…
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While there isn’t that much of it compared to the Amazon basin, the Australian Rainforest is the oldest living rainforest on the planet at around 100 million years, give or take a few million here and there. When Far North Queensland was settled, much of the lowland rainforest was cleared Read more…
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Yay, another business that doesn’t take itself too seriously! It’s a business I spotted called ‘Trophy Wife’! This one specialises in Nail Art and Manicures and obviously the owner and staff like having a bit of a laugh at themselves and this particular slang term which can often be viewed Read more…
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Cape Tribulation and the Daintree Rainforest are just north of my home town of Cairns in Far North Queensland, Australia. It’s a chilled out kind of place where two World Heritage Areas meet – the Daintree Rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef. It’s the only location in the world where Read more…
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My home town of Cairns is a popular place to visit for both Australian and overseas tourists because of it’s proximity to the Great Barrier Reef. You’ll see heaps of people taking off from the marina every day to experience this natural wonder that I took for granted when I Read more…
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Yay for common sense! I’ve come across a Butterfly Sanctuary who has rightly installed numerous No Selfie Sticks signs and have banned their existence inside their premises! But it’s not to protect other selfie takers from having their eyes poked out! I’ll segue onto that point in a minute, but Read more…
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Here’s one that’s a great practical joke and a faux tourism marketing campaign at the same time! I mean, it’s very cheeky and borderline offensive, but it actually worked. Probably better than many official tourism board marketing campaigns! I’m talking about CU in the NT – which has a double Read more…