Beaches

Brisbane Festival vs Gold Coast Record Breaker

3 October 2011 Entertainment Australia

On Saturday we headed down to the Gold Coast for a party. It was our friend’s birthday so, of course, we had to celebrate. Very nice too. We stayed over, and Sunday morning we thought it would be rude to leave the Gold Coast without having breakfast in a seaside cafe. So we had breakfast [...]

10 Reasons to Move to Australia

4 April 2011 Life in Australia

On Wednesday I posted my “real-time” video footage of what happened when a snake came into my house. On Friday I followed that up with more information about the snake along with some video analysis on the snake intruder. Well, it seems that since then, one or two of you are having second thoughts about [...]

Camping by the Beach in Coolum

28 March 2011 Australia's Places

As you know, this weekend we (that’s the BobinOz’s and the BeninOz’s) took the opportunity to go camping for the first time since April last year. On that occasion we went to North Stradbroke Island and had a fantastic weekend. I think I wrote three or four posts about that one, if you haven’t read [...]

Shark Feeding Frenzy at Teewah…..

10 September 2010 Australia's Bad Things

The other day I was looking for something on my own blog and couldn’t find it. “That’s not good” I thought. If I can’t find it, who can? As I am a very sharp cookie indeed, it didn’t take me long to work out the problem. You see, I was looking for something in my [...]

Australia is All Spaced Out.

19 July 2010 Australia's Places

It is worth pointing out that here in Australia everything is a little spaced out. And I’m not talking about “Alice in Wonderland” space out, I mean the distances between places. I was reminded of this on Saturday when we decided to nip down to Broadbeach for a bite to eat and a stroll around. [...]

WOW! What a Weekend.

19 April 2010 Entertainment Australia

I mentioned in Friday’s post that I was packing my bags and leaving Australian mainland for the first time since my arrival nearly 2 1/2 years ago. I gave you some clues regarding my destination and one reader, John, had a stab at Fraser Island. Wrong! It was here……. So where is here? Well, we [...]

Meet the Most Venomous Animal on the Planet!

10 September 2009 Australia's Bad Things

It can kill within a minute and a half. 63 lives claimed in Australia since 1884. Its poison kills faster than a Taipan. Meet the Box Jellyfish The real name of the box jellyfish is Chironex Fleckeri and it is sometimes known as the sea wasp. I always hated wasps, the buzzing black and yellow [...]

Pictures of an Australian Winter

13 July 2009 Entertainment Australia

In Friday’s post I informed you that I was not here, I was in Maroochydore. That information was incorrect. A Very Public Apology. This blog makes every effort to be factually correct at all times but on this occasion, it is with great regret that I have to inform you that……. my wife made a [...]