Egads; a tropical winter is the coldest kind of winter.

Houses built with a view to allowing (by design or default) a constant flow of air both under, over and through (by virtue of holey floorboards and impossible-to-close windows) work wonderfully well in summer, which to be fair lasts around 9 months of the year.

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Travelling North through torrential rain, I could have sworn I'd seen a yellow-tinted sign, tacked onto a tree with what to me are a near nirvana: antiques and collectibles sale.

Thinking I was delirious after a 5 hour drive spent bolt upright and concentrating hard on the rain-slicked road, it took another 30 or so kilometres more to see that the ( Read more... )

Being at a conference this week on small islands has made me consider life on the water far more than ever before, so much so that this ad immediately caught my eye and made me puzzle over whether I could indeed live on a houseboat.

It would be rather snug:


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There is, for those of you who don't know, such a thing as Islomania; a definitive and distinct love for all things related to islands.

For some more information, please turn your attention to a good little article about it here, and here we find the wiki entry for it. People write books about this stuff and of course, there are organisations  ( Read more... )

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Seen in a beach house in Cooee Bay:

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Two days on a little tropical island, camping with a family and some friends: good food and company and excellent bushwalking and snorkelling.

Some location shots:


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For some people, the distinction between a tourist and a traveller is one they are great pains to make. Well, folks who regards themselves as travellers are always indignant about the appelation 'tourist'. Tourists on the other hand, which is what we all are, whether we like it or not,  don't give a shit; they're too busy using the coupons they ( Read more... )

For a Facebook app, this is quite lovely.