White Cliffs – Outback and Laid Back White Cliffs was once an opal mining mecca in the southwest of New South Wales. Today there are a couple of commercial scale operations but most of the mining appears to be in the “Heritage” area where miners have tiny claims and are limited to using “heritage” methods; …
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Burke and Wills – The Disastrous Expedition that People Still Talk About. In1860 the leaders in Melbourne mounted an expedition to explore a route across Australia to connect the city to trade routes to Asia and, equally importantly, the new telegraph network to London. Four of the party did actually make it 2,000 miles to …
The Home of the Catalina – Lake Boga, Victoria Riding through the Murray-Darling Valley area that straddles Victoria and New South Wales is a glimpse into the immensity of Australian agriculture – horizon to horizon vineyards and olives and oranges and almonds and, strangely, carrots. But totally hidden from view with only one small sign …
The Melbourne Festival – Tanderrum My first day in Australia was the first day of the Melbourne Festival with both Portland and family connections for me. The former Artistic Director for the Melbourne Festival was Kristy Edmunds who created the Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts and then moved from Portland to do the same thing …
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