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Whitsunday Dreaming
Article from: “I see her as a sort of floating beach house, “ says Hume Campbell of his latest vessel, the sleep-aboard MV Ammari, “somewhere where guests can slow down quickly and relax.” Campbell, the current patriarch of the 80-year-old Brisbane-based family company Riverside Marine Pty Ltd, has seen the firm grow from humble coal […]
WHALE OF A TIME AT NEW RESORT
YOUR WEEKLY TRAVEL COLUMN “travellers good buys” DAVID ELLIS Week beginning: 16 April 2007 travel tips: with david ellis WHALE OF A TIME AT NEW RESORT THE Peppers group has opened a luxury 5-star resort at Queensland’swhale-watching capital, Hervey Bay just 3-hours drive north ofBrisbane. The Pier Resort’s Opening price from $321pp twin-shareincludes 2-nights in […]
WHALE OF A TIME AT NEW RESORT
YOUR WEEKLY TRAVEL COLUMN “travellers good buys” DAVID ELLIS Week beginning: 16 April 2007 travel tips: with david ellis WHALE OF A TIME AT NEW RESORT THE Peppers group has opened a luxury 5-star resort at Queensland’swhale-watching capital, Hervey Bay just 3-hours drive north ofBrisbane. The Pier Resort’s Opening price from $321pp twin-shareincludes 2-nights in […]
The Massacre on the Abrolhus
It was the middle of a moonlit night on 4 June 1629 when the brand new Dutch East Indiaman, Batavia, struck Morning Reef in the Abrolhus Islands. This event was the beginning of one of the most horrific tales of human savagery ever. About half of the 268 survivors, including women and children, were systematically […]
The Search for HMAS Sydney
STOP PRESS: HMAS Sydney Found ! About 4pm on 19 November 1941, the lookout on HMAS Sydney reported an unidentified merchant ship near Shark Bay. An exchange of signals aroused the suspicions of Captain Burnett RAN, and he closed in for a closer look at the mysterious 8500 tonne vessel. When the two ships were […]
Dirk Wos Heere
In October 1616, after a long and arduous traverse of the Indian Ocean, a 700 tonne trading ship, Eendracht, of the Dutch East India Company (the VOC) came “unexpectedly” upon some islands. It was not completely unusual for the Dutch to sight Australia if they had been blown off course or had become lost on […]
Holy Skyscrapers Batman, This Isn’t the Mardi Gras!
Image: Adrian Warren Everyone loves Melbourne. Everyone in Melbourne anyway. Give me Sydney any day, says Roderick Eime. In 1996 Melbourne was still under the temporary spell of Jeff Kennett when a motley bunch of liberal powerbrokers and commercial heavyweights wrested the phenomenally popular Australian Formula One Grand Prix from Adelaide. The city of churches […]
Buccaneer and Succour There
Article from: Roderick Eime braves pirates and cyclones for a glimpse of the romantic South Seas life on Vanuatu Where: Iririki Island Resort and Spa, Port Vila, Vanuatu “Pull that halyard! Put yer back into it, lad!” hollers Captain Harry, as I heave and sweat on the fat rope that hoists the mainsail. “Now sweat […]
Take Your Chances
from: Take Your Chances When it comes to fatalities on the roads and in the air, no traveller wants to become a statistic. So before you grab your passport and risk winging it out the door, here are some numbers that might help you answer the big question: Why are you tripping?
Journeys
Journeys Musings from the team of travel writers and photographers of the Global Travel Writers alliance.
