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SWELL Sculpture Festival 2018 – REVIEW

SWELL Sculpture Festival 2018

The SWELL Sculpture Festival 2018 has just kicked off here on the Gold Coast. Held at the stunningly beautiful Currumbin Beach, SWELL is now in it’s 16th year. This year will be my fourth year of attending SWELL and I think it gets better and better every year. (Check out what was on offer in …

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Whale Watching on the Gold Coast – Review

Whale Watching in the Gold Coast

If you are looking for information about whale watching on the Gold Coast you are in the right place. We’ve lived on the Gold Coast for over thirty years, so we can share some insider tips. Every year, hundreds of thousands of visitors flock to the Gold Coast. Many come during winter to escape the …

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Beach Horse Riding at Noosa North Shore, Qld

Beach Horse Riding at Noosa North Shore

Do you have a ‘Bucket List‘? A list of things you want to do or see before your time is up? We certainly do. Most of it is things that we want to do together but we each have a few separate things that we want to do as well. Something that had been on …

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2017 – Our Year in Review

Our Year in Review - Cold and Foggy in Cowra.

I love taking the opportunity at the end of each year to look back on our adventures. 2017 has been a really fantastic year for us. We’ve managed to fit in quite a few trips, both short and long. Our house renovations are almost complete. We bought a caravan and sold the camper trailer. Our …

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How to Find the Right Airbnb For You

how to find the right airbnb for you

Obviously, our preferred type of travel accommodation has always been our camper trailer and more recently a caravan. But there are occasions when these options aren’t suitable. I recently had to head up to the Sunshine Coast but of course, it fell on a long weekend. There was no way I was going to pay …

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Sandstone Park, Carnarvon Gorge – REVIEW

Campsite Views

Whenever we are planning a trip somewhere it is fairly rare for us to choose where we are going to stay before we go. But when we first started making plans for our trip to Carnarvon Gorge I discovered a new place to stay. Called Sandstone Park, I knew as soon as I saw it …

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SWELL Sculpture Festival 2017 – REVIEW

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On Friday, I spent the morning taking in the sights (and sounds) of the SWELL Sculpture Festival 2017. This year the SWELL Sculpture Festival celebrates it’s 15th year. The first SWELL Sculpture Festival was held over a weekend in September 2003 and attracted around 6000 visitors. Fast forward to 2017 and the SWELL Sculpture Festival …

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Christmas in July at St Bernards Hotel, Mount Tamborine

St Bernards Dining Room

There is no doubt that Christmas in Australia can be a hot affair. With most places around the country experiencing temperatures in the high 20’s to mid 30’s, many Aussies opt for seafood, ham and salad for their Christmas fair. This however, doesn’t mean that we don’t crave a traditional hot Christmas dinner. To cater …

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CTEK D250SA and SMARTPASS120 – REVIEW

CTEK D250SA and Smartpass 120

We were gifted the CTEK D250SA and Smartpass120. All opinions are our own. For the caravanning or camping enthusiast power is often one of the biggest issues we face. Or more correctly, the lack of power. So when we were offered a CTEK D250SA and Smartpass120 Battery Management System we jumped at the chance to install them …

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