It’s the last weekend of the school holidays and Australia’s beaches are at peak capacity. Getting away from the crowds will be tricky. So we do the only sensible thing. We take the yacht of the working classes to an…
How circumnavigating Hinchinbrook Island in a tinny made me a better Aussie
Until recently ‘tinny’ was a word I had to look up in a dictionary. Australian slang for a small aluminium boat, the yacht of the working classes, was something that belonged in a Tim Winton novel, together with his celebration of…
Why the Gold Coast should be envious of Stradbroke Island
I had many pre-conceived ideas about the Gold Coast when I visited for the first time recently, but finding a place besotted with everything retro was not one of them. Checking in at the trendy QT hotel, I was assisted by concierges…
