Tag Archives: Photo Blog Not thirty minutes north – or south – of my home, I can be in Beowa National Park. This 8,900 ha (22,000 acres) park was established in 1971, and consists of two coastal sections running north-south alongside the South Pacific Ocean, on either side of Twofold Bay and the town of Eden. It was originally […]  The Cardamom Hills of Kerala. The name is as heady as the rich array of exotic spices and fruits that grow there, and the wild animals that hide out in the jungle expanses. The Cardamom Hills form the highest part of Western Ghats, a range of mountains and hills that run north – south through […]  The little Port of Eden, near where I live in Far South New South Wales (NSW), is a busy working seaport. Situated on Twofold Bay, halfway between Sydney and Melbourne, it is one of the deepest natural harbours in the Southern Hemisphere. This makes it ideal for large vessels – including the Royal Australian Navy […]  I loved everything about Greece. I love Greek coffee and food. I loved the landscape and the architecture, and the history layered within it all. I loved how the place names were both exotic and vaguely familiar from long-forgotten school lessons. And, I loved the variety that was in every day of the small-group tour […]  Do you find you tend to ignore your own backyard? I often do. I’ll go to great lengths and distances to visit places afar, while making little time for sights closer to home. But, away from the more-populated coast, country New South Wales (like country Queensland) has some attractive old towns, with interesting histories, and […] |
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