I have lived in Australia for 25 years, and never once been in a dangerous situation with a snake. While Australia is known for it’s dangerous, venomous snakes, the reality is that few people actually die from bites. Most snakes would choose to slither away than fight a human, and don’t aggressively bite things out of malice. Snake venom is used to subdue prey...
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There is not a single person I have met on my extensive travels who has not had the Great Barrier Reef (Australia) on their bucket list. While I have been to part of the reef, I’ve never experienced it like Ben and Charli from Wanderlusters, who, as trained dive-masters can truly say they have experienced the reef in all its magnificence. The Great Barrier Reef is...
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Having made the transition from a private to public blog only two months ago, I’ve been quite surprised with just how much work goes into maintaining and working towards establishing a successful blog. Don’t get me wrong, I’m having an absolute blast discovering the different facets of being a blogger, however it really is a full time task – even more than – and some have said I have become addicted to blogging.
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I love featuring the experiences of fellow travel bloggers…especially when they have traveled to worlds I am yet to explore! As such, this week’s guest blog comes from Justin Carmack of The Art of Scuba Diving. When Justin was in Tofo, traveling Mozambique, he finally did something he had always wanted to do: he got Padi certified. He says: “My first...
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La Jolla Cove, San Diego’s most desirable spot for kayaking, snorkeling and diving, has become home to California’s largest seal and sea lion population. La Jolla Cove is free and completely open to public access – no trip to California will be complete without visiting, and I guarantee you will never see a seal and sea lion colony anywhere like...
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I’ve been spending the last few weeks networking within the travel blogging community, and have come across some amazing people who run some amazing blogs! Nicole and Michael from Suitcase Stories are two such people and I am very excited to feature their photo essay on world landmarks as my first guest blog. When we started our nomadic travels 13 months ago we had...
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If you, like me, dedicate a large portion of your time to travel, and spend more time traveling than you are resident in your own country, you’re more than likely to meet someone overseas. Which is a pity, because long distance relationships don’t work, right? OH MY GOD WRONG!!!!! I swear I will hit the next person who tells me that long distance relationships NEVER work out…and there have been many.
I’m Megan from Australia, and over the last 5 years I’ve spent an accumulation of 6 months out of every year abroad. So it’s not surprising that I met the love of my life while traveling. We have a pretty incredible story – so I’m told – which included pulling off one of the greatest long distance relationships ever, being almost 15,000 kilometers apart.
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Everything You Need to Know About the Australian Tourist Refund Scheme Post updated September 2018. For the most up to date information on the Australian Tourist Refund Scheme, see the Department of Immigration Website. “Free Money” is generally the kind of tag line which attracts instant attention for something completely unrelated, but in this case...
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I’ve traveled pretty extensively over the last 6 years, and I’ve learnt that there will always be little quirks about a country which you remember long after you have returned home. This photo essay is dedicated to all of those moments while traveling which make you shake you head and say “only in….!” Leave me a reply in the comments with your favorite “only...
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You can only get up close and personal with the Hollywood sign by foot, hiking along the Hollyridge trail – roughly 45 minutes. We followed these directions from “Hollywood Sign Trip” website: Drive to the intersection of Franklin Avenue and Beechwood Drive in Los Angeles. This is about 3 blocks North of the Hollywood Blvd. From the intersection of...
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Hollywood is not a place; it’s a state of mind. We arrived in LA yesterday and were all geared up for the glitz and glamour of Hollywood today! We picked up our rent-a-car this morning and for once opted in for the extra insurance (we figured it might come in handy since our plans include driving through Death Valley and the Crand Canyon…just in case!) and drove...
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Being my last day in Canberra I felt this was fitting for today! Canberrans have been asked to find 100 things to like about our great Capital in the lead up to Canberra’s Centenary celebrations. Canberra cops a lot of crap from non residents about being dull and boring, and if you’re not Australian you may even ask where Canberra is! However having lived in...
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The Road to Hana – Maui. Hawaii’s version of Australia’s Great Ocean Road; an absolute must. Make sure you have car insurance though; it’s a road which is wide enough for one and a half cars, with cars (and semi trucks and petrol tankers!!) coming from both ways – editing the video blog together this week!
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Kennet River, Victoria, is the best place to get up close and personal with Koalas in their natural habitat while driving the Great Ocean Road Australia. Take a drive up Grey River Road; it will be the highlight of your trip!
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Keep the Solomon Islands on your radar. The Islands have been the centre focus of weather radars around the world today, after a major 8.0 magnitude earthquake jolted the islands with small tsunami waves hitting the coastlines. Sadly a handful of lives were lost and many villages on Santa Cruz Island were flattened; the tsunami warning has now been cancelled. The...
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3 Irishmen, a South African and an Australian go Canyoning in the Swiss Alps…not the start to a joke, just my Thursday in Kandersteg. We caught a train to Interlaken to hit the canyons.
Instead of telling you about the adventure…why don’t you watch it?! We went through a canyon called Grimsel, which technically was the advanced canyoning experience…the fact that we were all beginners probably made the 65m abseiling and the 6m jumps off a cliff face into the water along with the 10m + slides and ziplining slightly more terrifying!!
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Picking up from cockatoo creek, we finished the telegraph track approximately 3 days ago now…which makes it Wednesday. We drove through the morning in anticipation for palm creek, eating a lot of dust along the way. It was impossible to sleep because of the corregation and the unpredictable turns in the road!! Having broken Calistas winch the day before, we decided...
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We reached the northernmost tip of the Australian continent after 2 hours of some highly entertaining 4wd-ing through varied terrain covered with an intriguing mosaic of eucalypt woodland and rainforest. A 15 minute walk then lead us through more rainforest and over a heap of rocks to the tip. The view was crazy amazing, looking down from virtually a cliff onto a...
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The first thing we noticed when we got to gunshot creek…one of the many challenges of the telegraph track…were the large tree in the middle of the creek which had been turned into a shrine with car parts claimed by the passing. Number plates, signs, alternators, car door frames, you name it were nailed to the tree! The second thing we noticed were the vertical drops...
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We drove from Laura to bramwell junction, eating a lot of dust over the 140 k that we drove. So much dust that I actually felt physically ill from breathing…a function I normally enjoy being able to perform!! I also felt physically ill as a 4wd at one point came skidding around the corner, powersliding towards our vehicle. Starting to compile some road trip rules....
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The majority of the previous night had been spent continuously waking up after spending the night rolling up and down my tent…upon reflection probably wasn’t the best idea to have set up my sleeping bag horizontally in a tent which was on a slope!
After being served Milo and tea in my tent (almost as good as breakfast in bed!), I stumbled out to breakfast with extremely low expectations of what I was about to consume.
Previous to leaving for Kilimanjaro we had heard horror stories about the breakfast ‘gruel’, so you can imagine the pleasant surprise when our porters walked in bearing platters full of eggs, sausages, tomatoes, cucumber and toast! For some reason I decided the ants would appreciate the first real breakfast I’d had in weeks more than I would so proceeded to drop my food in the dirt…fantastic!…lucky there was gruel available!!…it tasted like an extremely watered down, grainy chocolate porridge with the tang of light and tangy potato chips.
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Ascended 1500 m on day one, or 18km in 4 hours, to reach an altitude of 3,000m. Climbed through rainforest and camped in the desert. Very grateful for climbing boots…should have done more physical fitness training before coming! That being said, made excellent time and even though exhausted was in good spirits at the end of day 1 from a challenging but not unbearable climb.
Have an excellent group of climbing buddies and we’re now all fantastic friends. Glad I don’t have to carry the port-a-loo!
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On looking out the plane window before landing in Nairobi, the landscape looked strangely familiar. If I hadn’t known any better I would have almost sworn I was flying over Australia: expansive brown fields spotted with trees here and there and the occasional hill.
On walking off the plane and into the arrivals lounge however, you could tell we were a long way from home!! After handing over our fingerprints and adding to the collection of stamps in our passport we were greeted by 4 fellow Australian Rover Scouts who really weren’t that hard to find in the end due to the extremely small airport!!
No one seemed shocked about the fact that the airport security were carrying rifles, or that there were wild giraffes in fields just opposite the airport and monkeys hanging from the trees, no – the more shocking fact was apparently my excessive luggage!
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I am Megan Jerrard, professional travel blogger/journalist with a focus on adventure, discovery, immersion and inspiring you to explore!
