by Pascal Wyse, The Guardian Go with the floe … inching into the Antarctic wilderness. Photograph: Paul Goldstein A wildlife expedition to the Antarctic peninsula provides some unforgettable moments, from cruising through the ice floes to ice-climbing among comical penguins Judging by the wild goose chase detailed on the Antarctic Circle website, the $100 reward […]
David Ellis FOR Mustapha the ship’s parrot, the lure of a life before the mast proved to be a fatal attraction. As the elegant barquentine Star Flyer ploughed majestically through the Andaman Sea, Mustapha, hampered by clipped wings, laboriously climbed high into the rigging, sadly surveyed the indulgent scene 60 metres below on deck…..then dived, beak-first […]
David Ellis FOR Mustapha the ship’s parrot, the lure of a life before the mast proved to be a fatal attraction. As the elegant barquentine Star Flyer ploughed majestically through the Andaman Sea, Mustapha, hampered by clipped wings, laboriously climbed high into the rigging, sadly surveyed the indulgent scene 60 metres below on deck…..then dived, beak-first […]
“Bowral event “will be big enough to be seen from space…” HEAD to Bowral in the NSW Southern Highlands on Saturday May 7th and you could find yourself part of history: an attempt will be made that afternoon to create a new world record for the most number of people gathering with opened umbrellas to […]
“Bowral event “will be big enough to be seen from space…” HEAD to Bowral in the NSW Southern Highlands on Saturday May 7th and you could find yourself part of history: an attempt will be made that afternoon to create a new world record for the most number of people gathering with opened umbrellas to […]
“Bowral event “will be big enough to be seen from space…”HEAD to Bowral in the NSW Southern Highlands on Saturday May 7th and you could find yourself part of history: an attempt will be made that afternoon to create a new world record for the most number of people gathering with opened umbrellas to form […]
A WHOLE week regally cruising the Atlantic aboard the grand Queen Mary 2, stays in the finest world-class hotels in New York and London for shopping and sightseeing, airfares and taxes from Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane – and through Cruiseco, all this is from an incredibly low $3850pp twin-share. Cruiseco has four of these packages […]
A WHOLE week regally cruising the Atlantic aboard the grand Queen Mary 2, stays in the finest world-class hotels in New York and London for shopping and sightseeing, airfares and taxes from Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane – and through Cruiseco, all this is from an incredibly low $3850pp twin-share. Cruiseco has four of these packages […]
A WHOLE week regally cruising the Atlantic aboard the grand Queen Mary 2, stays in the finest world-class hotels in New York and London for shopping and sightseeing, airfares and taxes from Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane – and through Cruiseco, all this is from an incredibly low $3850pp twin-share. Cruiseco has four of these packages […]
Australia’s newest passenger airline, Strategic Airlines, is seeking permission from the International Air Services Commission to fly across the Pacific to US according to a report in the SMH. The airline, which runs a fleet of aircraft which includes four 20-y-o Airbus A320-200 series and a 10-y-o A330-223 ex-Lufthansa aircraft also announced in March that […]