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Image: Steve Collins In the top right hand of Western Australia is El Questro a magnificent cattle station and tourist park that can simply overwhelm the senses. Large cattle stations are reasonably common in this part of the world, in Australia’s Top End, but El Questro is adorned with...
Image: Kimberley Quest/Matt Fieldes Kimberley Quest explores the bays and rivers of the remote Kimberley in Western Australia’s Northwest, and it’s a most unique and wonderful experience. Kimberley Quest is a small cruise ship of nine cabins, catering for a maximum of 18 guests. The...
Image: TravelManitoba Canada is the second-largest country in the world, and right in its centre is the Province of Manitoba. Manitoba is prairie country but, as you head north, it does turn into Arctic Tundra. The town of Churchill on the shores of Hudson’s Bay is famous for being the...
Currumbin Wildlife Hospital. Photo Credit – Kate Webster Located on Queensland’s Gold Coast, Currumbin Wildlife Hospital is one of the busiest wildlife hospitals in the world. With a mission to treat, rehabilitate and release Australian wildlife, many of these patients would have...
Located at 233 Maleny-Stanley River Road Maleny, Maleny Botanic Gardens and Bird World is just over an hour’s drive north of Brisbane, exit Steve Irwin Way off the Bruce Highway. The newly-refurbished café is the perfect destination for morning coffee, an afternoon Devonshire...
South America is an amazingly diverse continent, stretching from the balmy Caribbean coast in the north to wild Patagonia in the south; the variety of cultures, climates, and landscapes across 13 countries really has to be experienced to be believed. There are ample opportunities for...
An eerie silence blankets the jungle, it has frozen in time. We are waiting, hoping to hear the warning call of the Spotted Deer, alerting us to a tiger nearby. There it is, and suddenly we’re off, hurtling along in our open-air jeep. We round a corner and come to a...
It’s the most unusual address that I’ve ever stayed at – !Xaus Lodge, Dune 91, Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Mier, Northern Cape, South Africa. That address is correct. We did have to cross 91 sand dunes in the Kalahari Desert, no road, just tyre tracks that our driver...
Many will remember the popular 1988 film ‘Gorillas in the Mist’ for its heart-wrenching narrative about the plight of Mountain gorillas living in the African jungle areas of Rwanda, Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Based on the book with the same title by renowned...
The Galapagos Islands is a group of volcanic islands located in the Pacific Ocean 973km off the west coast of South America. The islands have some of the most diverse wildlife in the world making it a paradise for diving, bird watching and all nature lovers. Small ship Galapagos...