Australia

Pros: Great Barrier Reef, aborigine culture, Koala Sanctuary, Kuruanda, rainforest, Sydney Aquarium, Australia Zoo, Blue Mountains.
Cons: None

I, my wife and our kids spent three weeks in Eastern Australia in August of 2005.  We visited Sydney and the Blue Mountains for a few days and the rest of the time we spent in Queensland. Queensland is probably Australia's prime destination for ...

Pros: The wild life in Tasmania
Cons: The hectic schedule. I never got to do it all.

Australia has tonnes of things to, I just never got to do it all. I was in Sydney and Tasmania in late February till early March 2006. Sydney The things to do: 1. Visit the market in Paddington and the Rocks, the things sold there are very ...

Pros: Stunningly beautiful
Cons: Expensive. Tours can be rushed. Subtle racism

There were things we loved on our first visit to Australia: trekking through the Daintree rainforest, walking the 6 miles around Uluru (Ayers Rock) after sunrise, getting close enough to the Sydney Operahouse to see its individual tiles, petting a ...

Pros: Wonderful views, friendly people
Cons: Driving on the wrong side

Our trip to Australia took in Sydney, Brisbane and Cairns but it was Cairns and the Great Barrier Reef that topped our list. The day we went to the reef was magical, I couldn't have wished for a better day. The clown fish, the clams, the colours - we...

Pros: Wonderful beaches.
Cons: Too much to do!

Australia is a wonderful Country. It has sweeping sunburnt plains, pristine beaches, lush rainforests, and the advantage of great lifestyle technology. Australia is also a place for fun, with the greatest (bar America’s) Theme parks. I have two main...

Pros: Very special places
Cons: nil

Ever been somewhere that has got IT. That weird feeling that doesn't frighten but has the hairs only half standing on the back of your neck. A warmth pervades your body as you approach, no matter what the weather.


The air is just not the...

Pros: Sheer talent
Cons: not one

If in the unlikely event you find this epistle not up to my usual standard, it is all the fault of fellow epinionator Nick Peters, known commonly as NFP.



Now Nick is an American but it's not his fault - it was just an accident of...

Pros: Rapid change of choice
Cons: nil

Are words important? Not really. What about labels? You bet your sweet bippy they are!

Why is it that white Caucasian people refer to themselves as of a certain nationality unyet a non white person is labelled as being of a Tribe? Well it all...

Pros: easy on water
Cons: none

I am not particularly fond of anything that needs four legs to stand up. Oh, except maybe a mouse because they feed cats, which in turn feed dogs making an easier target. Because of the four-leg bit, I love Kangaroos and some humans are okay too.
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Pros: Space, space space
Cons: nil

There is just no doubt about old paleface, white chops, the white man. For tens of thousand of years the Aboriginals had kept Australia pristine. They understood the land. They new fire was essential to the propagation of many Australian trees - and they...

Pros: as modern as any country.
Cons: nil

Just say you and I were the very first people to walk on to Australia. And just say we knew how big it was.

Now if you said to me in two hundred years this overgrown lump of dirt would have twenty million people living at one of the highest...

Pros: open spaces - unique wildlife
Cons: non

Now this is really a classified conversation, but since I trust you I will tell you what happened. This morning I got a call from the Prime Minister - nothing unusual about that. "Yes John, ow ya going, mate?.....yes..yes..of course they do...hey, I just...

Pros: beautiful, clean, relatively cheap
Cons: expensive and long airfare

How I got to go
I think that I am really lucky. I got to go to Australia this past summer for three weeks. Not bad, for a 21 year old who paid for it all myself. And, I would do it again in a heart beat. I was lucky in that one of my...

Pros: if you like warm weather, wildlife (like wombats & wallabies), the Outback, and Vegemite.
Cons: If you dislike Vegemite, English with Aussie idiosyncrasies, Crocodile Dundee, or prefer cold weather.

When my sister and I first landed in Sydney, we were greeted by a friendly Aussie. She guided us to her car and said, "Wiy don' yu' jus' put yur luggige in the boot..."

"The boot???" we wondered, "what kind of boot would fit our luggage for...

Pros: Unusual wildlife, spectacular unspoilt beaches, crystal clear water
Cons: none

North Stradbroke Island - I hear you say - where is that? Just off the coast of Brisbane, yet you wouldn't know it, as so much energy is used promoting the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast it is a hidden secret. There is this website at...