Australia
Unfortunately not all sharks have people teeth, which is why scientists in Western Australia have tagged over 70 great white sharks with satellite-tracking darts designed to send out a text message when one of the predators swims within 500 meters of metropolitan beaches.
Researchers have set up a total of… Read the rest
On January 1st 2010, a team of Australian researchers located remains of the first airplane ever taken to Antarctica.
Interestingly, the plane, which was brought to the continent by Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson in 1912, was never meant to make it off the ground. Mawson had brought the single-propeller… Read the rest
Splashing around in water is fun. And no matter where you are on this grand planet of ours the rule is the same: if there is enough water people will find a way to have fun in it.
In his fly-fishing masterpiece The River Why… Read the rest, Oregon author David James
Earlier this year we wrote about the Best Job In The World Contest where the lucky winner would become caretaker of a tropical island for the period of six months and get paid $103,000 (AUS) to do it. Yeah, it sounds like the perfect job, but it was also one… Read the rest
Sarah Outen, 24, holds three world records after her incredible 124 day, 4000 mile 2009 journey from Australia to Mauritius. Outen is not only the first woman and youngest person to solo the Indian Ocean, she is also the youngest woman to row across an ocean altogether. Because of her
Australian filmmaker and environmentalist Richard Pain has announced that he will attempt to swim across the Pacific Ocean from Japan to the United States, directly through the North Pacific Gyre, in a gigantic plastic bottle.
If successful, Pain would be the first swimmer in history to complete the 5,500-mile journey.… Read the rest
A man in Victoria, Australia ended up in the hospital after sustaining deep cuts to his abdomen and face in a battle with an aggressive male kangaroo that was trying to drown his dog Rocky in a dam.
The forty-nine-year-old victim told reporters his dog chased the male kangaroo into… Read the rest
You heard me right. The U.S. has now claimed the throne as the world’s no. 1 favorite country. What’s the big surprise?… Read the rest Many say that the nation has President Barack Obama to thank. Global confidence in Obama has put the U.S. in a positive light. Even approval of America among
Sometimes you need a little travel inspiration, and today’s comes from Otway Fly in Australia. The treetop walk takes visitors 25 meters above the forest floor to check out the beauty of the local flora and fauna from a bird’s eye perspective. The treetop walk is 600 meters long, making… Read the rest
Australia’s Uluru, formerly known as Ayers Rock, is an iconic destination, attracting more than 350,000 people a year. But it’s much more than a tourist destination; the World Heritage-listed rock is sacred to the local Aborigine people.
More than 100,000 people climb the rock every year, but now the Australian… Read the rest
Crop circles are a freaky phenomenon that some blame on aliens while others claim is a human hoax. In the 2002 movie Signs, Joquine Phoenix and Mel Gibson learned the hard way that the crop circle in their farm was just one of many signs being posted around the planet… Read the rest
To most people, Australia — home to great white sharks, box jellyfish, saltwater crocodiles, funnel web spiders, and six of the top-ten deadliest snakes on the planet — might seem like a pretty adventurous place to live. But for a secret society of local explorers called the Cave Clan, the… Read the rest
That statement might not necessarily be true, but I don’t really know how else to interpret this sign posted over on Vagabondish. Just another reason to travel to Australia!
[Photo: tm-tm, Flickr]… Read the rest
In Australia, when something goes bump in the night, odds are it isn’t the boogey man.
Canberra, Australia resident Beat Ettlin was laying in bed with his wife and 9-year-old daughter when someone – or something – exploded through the bedroom window, climbed up on the bed and began furiously… Read the rest
If your job prospects for 2009 is looking meek, or if you’re just bored and need to spice up your life, you’ll probably want to apply to what tourism officials in Australia are calling the “best job in the world.” Tourism Queensland is on the search for someone to become… Read the rest
