Thread: Where would you visit in Australia?

Originally Posted by AlexS

In response to Midge's challenge in another thread, where would I recommend people visit?

My comments in blue

Take a ferry trip on Sydney Harbour... bypassed Sydney too many people in that smoke for me

Bushwalk in the Blue Mountains... couldnt find the blue mountains looked everywhere and saw a lot of mountains but none where blue so we kept going

Go diving on the Great Barrier Reef... done that and good fun just watch out for the stingrays if your wearin yer khakis!!

Mt. Lamington National Park... is that somewhere near Scone? and do they serve tea or coffee with the lammos?

Powerhouse museum in Sydney... why? too many people in that smoke for me

Ride a bike round Tassie... would love to... bike being a three wheel chopper like me ol mate Billy Connolly used right?

Drive from Adelaide to Alice Springs to get an idea of the scale of Australia... nope to get a REAL idea of the scale of this country... go the other way from Darwin down to Adelaide... great trip fanbloodytastic people and Oodnadatta has a great pub!

Daintree, Cooktown & Cape York... loved it but spent too little time alert to appreciate it... oh I was there... well in body the rest was somewhere with the pixies... IT WAS THE 70s MAN!! I understand from the photos someone left in my napsack that Dimboolah and Mareeba were brilliant places too and the waterfalls at Atherton were something else... but Im only basing that on the pics cause I cant remember a sodding thing about those couple of years of me youth

Drive from Perth to Albany, stopping at lots of places along the way... did that a couple of weeks ago... BRILLIANT TRIP!!... take a co driver!! and be prepared to do A LOT of wine tasting... going down keep to the main track enough wine to slosh yer way to Albany coming back take every detour you can find... you may take a LOT longer to get to Perth but brother the WINE is to die for!! FANBLOODYTASTIC!!... ooh and theres one spot off the main track that sells olive oil... ooooh man that extra virgin olive oil is better than some of the wines!

Dive with the whale sharks at Esperance WA... nope dive with the buggars in Exmouth mate its a damned sight warmer!!

Walk all round Melbourne, and visit restaurants in Richmond etc... why ANYONE in their right mind or someone elses would even consider going anywhere but out of that city is beyond me

Another is the hot springs at Materanka in the Territory... actually ANY place in the Territory is worth the time and effort... reckon the Territory is the best place in Aussie meself even over and above West Aussie... If you can afford it take a trip on the Ghan... do a pub crawl through Kalgoorlie... hahaha If you can make it from one end to the other including Boulder you will be noncomprementus for a month of sundys!! I loved Rosebud in Victoria but hated Melbourne with a vengence may have had a lot to do with the fact that the garbos had been on strike for 2 weeks or so when I called through but man wet drab dinghy horrid city that one... a wine crawl through the barrossa in South Aussie is great to do.. but like the Albany crawl do take a co driver... Id like to sail a couta boat in Bass Straight and be a crewman on one of the Sydney to Hobarts one day... one of the daughters and her fiance did the Sydney thing a year or so back and loved the bridge walk so thats worth it from what I hear

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

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Gold Panner (Bathurst, NSW)
Guitar (Narrandera, NSW)
Guitar (Tamworth, NSW)
Gumboot (Tully, QLD)
Hotdog (Arncliffe, NSW)
Joint (Nimbin, NSW)
Kangaroo (Border Village, SA)
Koala (Dadswells Bridge, VIC)
Koala (Phillip Island, VIC)
Koalas (Coffs Harbour, NSW)
kyogle....
Lobster (Kingston SE, SA)
Macadamia (Nambour, QLD)
Mandarin (Mundubbera, QLD)
Mango (Bowen, QLD)
Marlin (Cairns, QLD)
Marree Man (Outback, SA)
Merino (Blackall, QLD)
Merino (Goulburn, NSW)
Milkshake (Warrnambool, VIC)
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Bit of a view from fairymount. Actually, I think its only a hill...BUT...you can see the whole town !!

Your welcome if you need to take a break, for a cuppa, or a place to stay the night. There's a spare mattrass here somewhere.

Originally Posted by apricotripper

Bit of a view from fairymount. Actually, I think its only a hill...BUT...you can see the whole town !!

Your welcome if you need to take a break, for a cuppa, or a place to stay the night. There's a spare mattrass here somewhere.

You can even check out the picture in the bottom pub and see how it got its name

Adelaide to Alice Springs? Scale of Australia? Pfft, Thats like traveling between Perth and Geraldton.

Travel from Perth to Kununurra via the Gibb River Road, THEN you'll get an idea of the scale of the Country.

An alternate list of things to do in this country (Not definitive just some things I've done):

• Wombeyan Caves (NSW)
• 4WDing in Brindabellas in winter, followed by an open fire lunch on the banks of the Murumbidgee/Molongo river.
• Watch the surfers taking on 5-6m swells at Yallingup/Maragert River (Bells Beach
• Go and see question time in parliament when something interesting is being debated (yes its actually really enjoyable!)
• The Robertson-Kiama Drive....the best in the country (and have a pie at the Robo pie shop).
• Swim in the shark cage at Streaky Bay (SA)
• Drive the Nullarbor and go see the Whales in the Bight and the ruins of the Eyre Telegraph station
• Have a look at Wittenoom...eerie, eerie stuff
• Pick your own Cherries at Young (NSW)
• Go Horse riding in the snowy mountains in summer, or downhill mountain biking
• Have a coffee on Chappell St (Melb) and watch the Aston-Martin driving 25yr old blondes walk by
• Have a coffee on Brunswick St and watch the freaks walk by (in their pyjamas).
• Go to the Goldfields league footy grandfinal (Kalgoorlie). Its the only place in Australia where local footy means something and is BIG news.
• Visit the superpit in Kal leave....immediately.
• Take a canoe trip down Kangaroo Valley in NSW or the Murchison River (WA)
• Drive the road out of Sydney (and don't look back!)
• Go the the Highland Games at Bundanoon
• Camp along the Murray in teh Swan Hill/Echuca region
• Drive the Gibb River Road and catch some barra.
• Go see the Iron Ore loading operations at Pt Headland/Dampier in the Pilbara

Oops, sorry Ding, I meant Exmouth, not Esperance.

After 20+ years driving coaches I can safley say....................

"I haven't been everywhere" and there is still ssooooooooooooo much out there to see and do and experience but even if I live to 100 ( I am 1/2 way there) I wont see it all.

Favourites Gold panning with old Jack (miss the yarns mate) at Hill End and later on having drink with him at the pub.

FNQLD
Gulf Country
Lava Tubes
NT the lot
inland WA all of WA
More of Tassie 3 weeks not long enough
Back road from Ellenburgh falls to Taree what sights.
SA from Adelaide to all boarders

Come on Cliff, why are you holding back? Let's hear it for the Atherton Tablelands! I lived there for over seven years and kept finding new places of interest.
An absolute wonderland (if it's not raining or foggy).

Definately stay at Hornsby hospital, Sydney, and get your hip replacement joints done.

Janet is even going up ladders this summer picking stick beans (runners) since her visit last September.

Originally Posted by bitingmidge

I'm thinking of a tour involving visiting the BIG:


Macadamia (Nambour, QLD)
Mandarin (Mundubbera, QLD)
Mango (Bowen, QLD)
Marlin (Cairns, QLD)
Marree Man (Outback, SA)
Merino (Blackall, QLD)
Merino (Goulburn, NSW)
The best info on all I've found thus far is here:
http://www.bigthings.com.au/


cheers,

P

You missed the big opal in Lightning Ridge.

Originally Posted by Barry Hicks

Come on Cliff, why are you holding back? Let's hear it for the Atherton Tablelands! ....

I always tell travelers not to miss The Great Barrier Reef. It has to be the besat thing we have got.

I've been around this great big country a bit, and one thing that hit me hard, especially driving an overloaded Kombi at 80kph, is there are some superb attractions with great huge expanses of nothing between them! Maybe that's what makes the special places even more so...
Amongst my favourites are:
Cape Le Grande national park, east of Esperance
The little SW corner of WA, down to Albany and Augusta
NE NSW, especially inland from Murwillumbah, Mt Warning, up into the Border Ranges; Nimbin, Kyogle etc.
Berry Springs near Darwin
The Cairns hinterland, like the Little Mulgrave river (I'm more into rivers and creeks than beaches)
The road from Cairns along the coast to Port Douglas
The rocky southern coast of NSW, around Pambula
Barossa valley, SA
Whitsunday Islands, Qld
The Rocks area of Sydney (had to put a bit of city in there!)

Cheers,

Baxter's Cliffs.
Isralite Bay Old Telegraph Station.
Faye Bluff in the Die Hardy Range
The whole Yilgan Region.

[quote=Andy Mac;561496]
The little SW corner of WA, down to Albany and Augusta
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Couldn't agree more. What a lovely part of the word. Don't forget Pemberton and the Glouster tree. This tree is monstrous (60 metres), with a ladder of sorts that one can climb up.

I have actually fallen out of the Glouster tree!! Absolutely true story.

Thank God I was only on the first rung of the ladder at the time.

Another place to visit would have to be Goodooga in NSW far north west.

In the late seventies this town was voted the most boring in Australia for two consecutive years. The whole contest then waned because it was too boring.

The fact that I lived there for 4 years had nothing to do with the contest and I feel that if I had to live there then the least you lot can do is just visit.

AT the time there was no TV, no newspapers, no VCRs. (Is it any wonder the average family had about 8 kids). Thank God for the ABC radio and the prices of yearlings in Dubbo.

Lightning Ridge is only about 80km away so the whole trip wouldn't be wasted.


WB
Killer of Brain cells