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Alec Has Recently Returned From Niagara Falls On my last trip I drove up through New York State to the Canadian border. Our destination was Niagara Falls, a place I just had...

Best Places For Whale Watching

The waters are calm and perfect for whale watching. Our small rib boat bobs gently in the light swell as our guide and pilot surveys the horizon through his binoculars. Another boat appears around the headland, heading...

How To Visit The Great Barrier Reef

Australia is blessed with an abundance of awe-inspiring natural wonders. Uluru and Kakadu, Sydney Harbour and the Blue Mountains, The Kimberley, and Kangaroo Island. However, perhaps its most precious of all, is the Great Barrier Reef.

Alice Springs: Your Gateway to Australia’s Red Centre

In the heart of The Outback, roughly halfway between Adelaide and Darwin (but still 1500km from either) lies the quintessentially Australian town of Alice Springs. Sitting on the banks of the Todd River, dry for most of...

Jungle Tours & Rainforest Adventures

The sights and sounds of the rainforest are unforgettable; the call of monkeys in the tree-tops, the vibrant colours of tropical birds roosting in the canopy and the synchronized reverberations of thousands of insects welcoming the sunset....

Queensland: Beyond the Reef

Queensland has a secret that it would like to share… We all think we know it. Queensland, Australia; home to the Great Barrier Reef. The world’s largest coral reef that stretches for almost 1,500...