Went for the crystals. That was the whole plan, really, I’d read about the giant amethyst cave, the crystal pillars, the Dragon Egg everyone photographs, and figured we’d go take a look, tick it off, move on. What actually stuck with me wasn’t any of that. It was sitting outside the café afterward, warm breeze, […]
Treetops Adventure Belgrave Reviews
We’d driven past the turn-off to Belgrave dozens of times without knowing what was tucked up there. It turns out the south-east has its own little tree-surfing park, and it also happens to sit right by the Belgrave terminus of the Puffing Billy steam train. We only found out about the second part by accident, […]
Bodalla Dairy Shed Reviews
We weren’t planning to stop in Bodalla at all. It’s one of those blink-and-you’ll-miss-it villages on the Princes Highway, somewhere between Batemans Bay and Narooma, and if it weren’t for a friend’s offhand comment about “the dairy place with the calves,” we’d have driven straight past it. Instead, we lost a happy hour and a […]
Tesselaar Tulip Festival 2026 Review
Went to Tesselaar on the Sunday, day two of this year’s festival. My cousin texted the night before saying tickets were 30% off and that everyone was getting a free return pass, so we just went, no real plan. Long rows of green with maybe a third of it flowering. Patches of colour here and […]
Bendeela Recreation Area Reviews
We got to Bendeela Recreation Area just before 5pm. Within a few minutes we were surrounded, not by other tourists, but by kangaroos and wombats — several families of each, grazing on the open grass as if we weren’t even there. A couple of tents were pitched nearby and nobody seemed fussed, least of all […]
Must Visit Dinosaur Parks near Melbourne
My son has been carrying the same three dinosaur picture books around the house for weeks, correcting anyone who calls a Triceratops a Stegosaurus, so this school holidays we more or less surrendered and did the full dinosaur circuit — DinoFest out at Nortons Park, the dinosaur trail running through the zoos, and a longer […]
Best Dinosaur Parks near Sydney
We’ve done two dinosaur-themed day trips out of Sydney now, in opposite directions and for opposite reasons — one for a big day out that happened to include dinosaurs, one because we were already in town for the car racing and stumbled onto something better. Dinosaur Valley at Scenic World, Blue Mountains We went for […]
Must Visit Dinosaur Parks near Brisbane
We weren’t planning to spend three days chasing dinosaurs. We were just passing through outback Queensland, and someone at a caravan park mentioned “the Dinosaur Trail” the way locals mention things they assume you already know about. A quick search later, we’d rearranged the whole trip around it. Australia’s Dinosaur Trail links three towns — […]
Carrickalinga Point Lookout – Adelaide’s Wildflower Cliff
Everyone on my feed had the same photo this month — an orange hillside running down into the sea somewhere south of Adelaide — so a friend and I got in the car one afternoon and went to find it ourselves. The parking was almost embarrassingly easy. You punch in Carrickalinga Point Lookout, drive about […]
Painting with Puppies in St Kilda
My daughter has been asking for a dog since she could talk. We’re not getting one. So when I saw a class called Painting with Puppies running in St Kilda over the school holidays, I booked it partly to buy myself another year of “maybe when you’re older.” It’s run by Puppy Yoga Melbourne, a […]