Australia

Pros: Great Barrier Reef, aborigine culture, Koala Sanctuary, Kuruanda, rainforest, Sydney Aquarium, Australia Zoo, Blue Mountains.
Cons: None

I, my wife and our kids spent three weeks in Eastern Australia in August of 2005.  We visited Sydney and the Blue Mountains for a few days and the rest of the time we spent in Queensland. Queensland is probably Australia's prime destination for ...

Pros: open spaces - unique wildlife
Cons: non

Now this is really a classified conversation, but since I trust you I will tell you what happened. This morning I got a call from the Prime Minister - nothing unusual about that. "Yes John, ow ya going, mate?.....yes..yes..of course they do...hey, I just...

Pros: Space, space space
Cons: nil

There is just no doubt about old paleface, white chops, the white man. For tens of thousand of years the Aboriginals had kept Australia pristine. They understood the land. They new fire was essential to the propagation of many Australian trees - and they...

Pros: unusual, unique
Cons: none

A true but slightly irreverent view of some of the unique Australian animals.


The PLATYPUS and EMU


The first unique animal we will deal with is the Platypus.

The correct pronunciation is PLAT - EE - PUSSE
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Pros: essential information - accuracy undoubted
Cons: none

Are you aware that from here i.e. both Adelaide and Melbourne, you can fly over Antarctica?

You can rent a light aircraft and just head south until it gets bloody cold and when you see all this white stuff below, you know you are getting close...

Pros: Sheer talent
Cons: not one

If in the unlikely event you find this epistle not up to my usual standard, it is all the fault of fellow epinionator Nick Peters, known commonly as NFP.



Now Nick is an American but it's not his fault - it was just an accident of...

Pros: Unique, usually friendly
Cons: none

A true but slightly irreverent view of some of the unique Australian animals available to tourists

International key

Japanese - kalangadoo
American - kaaaaangaaaaroooooooooooooooooooooooo
Latin - hippus hoppus
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Pros: humour, ease, simplicity
Cons: none

Review Topic:  Overview

Let me first say how gratifying was the response to part one. But, and I hate buts, we now have Americans eating toads (huge frogs), sleeping with snakes, sucking on dead Dingo’s dongers(dogs penis) and...

Pros: open spaces
Cons: care - not for inexperienced

A brief look at three Outback Tracks for tourists to consider

In earlier reviews we have traveled the bitumen highways from Sydney to Adelaide and Adelaide to Darwin. They were easy ones. Too easy, weren’t they. This time we are going to rent...

Pros: easy on water
Cons: none

I am not particularly fond of anything that needs four legs to stand up. Oh, except maybe a mouse because they feed cats, which in turn feed dogs making an easier target. Because of the four-leg bit, I love Kangaroos and some humans are okay too.
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Pros: Very special places
Cons: nil

Ever been somewhere that has got IT. That weird feeling that doesn't frighten but has the hairs only half standing on the back of your neck. A warmth pervades your body as you approach, no matter what the weather.


The air is just not the...

Pros: honest
Cons: nil

It saddens me to feel compelled to write this - truth can really hurt and that is what this is all about - please brace yourselves.

Anyone visiting Australia who has read my reviews can rejoice in the knowledge they know the truth....

Pros: Rapid change of choice
Cons: nil

Are words important? Not really. What about labels? You bet your sweet bippy they are!

Why is it that white Caucasian people refer to themselves as of a certain nationality unyet a non white person is labelled as being of a Tribe? Well it all...

Pros: as modern as any country.
Cons: nil

Just say you and I were the very first people to walk on to Australia. And just say we knew how big it was.

Now if you said to me in two hundred years this overgrown lump of dirt would have twenty million people living at one of the highest...

Pros: people
Cons: none

The real differences between Australia and the USA


Well I'll be a bull ant in spring. Why a bull ant? They have no morals!

Now, today marks the 23rd. week of sweat and toil in this hallowed place, and all of it done...