Travel Tips and Stories of Australia
Find inspiration with pictures, tips and stories of Australia from travelers sharing their experiences
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Travel guide of Australia
Find inspiration with pictures, tips and stories of Australia from travelers sharing their experiences
Book your trip to Australia and remunerate who inspired you
Travel guide of Australia
In 2013 I visited my relatives on Forrester Station in the Queensland outback for a week. One evening I helped drive a herd of young cattle back to their paddock. I noticed how amazing the golden sunset light looked through the dust clouds thrown up by the cattle. The next day I brought my camera along and managed to capture these incredible light conditions. To me that shot perfectly captures the earthy serenity I so love about the Australian outback, along with the warm and calm character of the people working that incredible landscape.
One of my friends messaged me if I wanted to go camping at this spot for sunrise. After finishing work at 9:30PM, we made our 3 hour drive through the night to get to the location. Once we got there at 1AM we set up camp for the night. In the morning we work up early so that we had enough time to pack up camp and get to the look out. The views from the lookout were truely unbelievable, the colours from the blue mist and the golden rays from the rising sun was a moment not to be missed.
The Vortex our dive boat was an ex-cray fishing (lobster) boat here in Western Australia. The boat was anchored at Cigar banks reef on the northern side of Rottnest Island in April 2008. I rested my camera on the anchor chain to take a shot in about 12 metres of water and this is the result.. Nikonos V underwater 35mm focal plane shutter film camera Fujichrome Sensia ASA 100 film Sea & sea 15mm wide lens F2.8 aperture & ambient light
New castle is and will always be my favourite place. I have been craving to be at this place do a photo project with great dresses that could fly when the wind comes. The chances hasn’t come to me, yet I did went to this place for road trip with Adalai. The girl in the picture is tourist form korean. Didn’t got the chance to speak to her but she seems to have fun with the little safari Australia.
Day one of my snow trip to Hotham in australia, I was struck by a beginner skier heading down the mountain. I was stretcherd back up the mountain with the potential fear of a fractured or broken elbow. After one full day of recovery, I sucked up the pain and got back out there on the mountain, and managed to clear a black run on my first attempt. The photo doesn’t really show how scared of re-injuring myself, but it does show how much fun I was having and how greatful I was to the wonderful staff at hotham who helped me recover.
Built in a dockyard in Grangemouth, Scotland in 1911. Arriving in Sydney a year later, it was originally called the Corrimal and during the Second World War it would transport supplies to US troops in the Pacific. When the war ended it was renamed and became a collier on the “sixty miler” run transporting coal from Newcastle to Sydney. It came to Homebush Bay in 1972 and was left behind after the scrap metal prices tumbled and closed down.
I was on a road trip from Brisbane to Sydney, and we did some stops along the way. We pulled off to a small ocean town called Port Macquarie and went to the oceanfront. A tradition had started a few years ago, where people started to paint the rocks (most were travellers). As i was reading the rocks, I saw this one in particular and thought it was amazing. You really should, be here.
Buddha tree. The trunk of a bodhi tree or peepal tree in Cairns Australia. This is the type of tree under which the Buddha sat (for 49 days!) till he received enlightenment. I am not a Buddhist, but I thought that Buddhists may like a photo of a bodhi tree. The botanical name is appropriate: Ficus religiosa. For those who appreciate the wonders of nature, you may enjoy visiting the page “Divine designs God’s creation” on my site Tracts4Free.wordpress.com which has photos of all sorts of wonderful things in nature.
There’s only a few times each year that the full moon sets behind the Sydney Harbour Bridge in this composition, and I’d planned this shot weeks in advance. This was taken after dawn on a cold Saturday morning in between the clouds. In person the full moon is a grand sight moving quickly through the sky towards the city. In this shot I’ve tried to evoke how I felt standing there watching it balanced between these two Sydney icons, which - open disclosure - required some adjustment to the moon size.
Accompanied by family members to celebrate Australia Day in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory in 2010, I had set up below the southern end of the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge next to Lake Burley Griffin to photograph the evening fireworks. This shot was an 8 second exposure, and a boat just happened to come slowly into the frame during the exposure and set off a red flare. It is almost completely unedited in post. I love the contrast of the deep night sky in the top right and the red flare reflecting off the bottom of the bridge.
One of the only things I planned to prioritize when I went to Melbourne, Australia was the 12 Apostles. Fun fact, apparently, according to our persuasive tour guide, there are only 9 rock formations in this area; 2 of which were recently not counted to be part of the 9 anymore since the first one collapsed and the other one too small to be recognized as one of the monumental rock formations. Anyway, it was a good & sunny day when we did the GOR tour, hence, I got this marvelous shot.
Whenever I visit friends and relatives in Melbourne in South Eastern Australia, I like to spend some time in the cathedral-like mountain ash forests. In this photo, you can just detect the slightly bluish haze typical of eucalyptus forests. Eucalyptus oil is volatile, and also adds a wonderful fresh fragrance to the air. These trees are the second tallest in the world (after the Coast Redwood), and are the tallest flowering plant in the world.
so I was shooting the Sydney harbour bridge and the fisherman one winter morning and I saw this man fishing alone on the warm, approaching him I asked whether he was cool if I took photos of him and he reluctantly accepted, as I shot him we began making small talk to avoid awkward silence, in doing do I found out that he had migrated to Australia int he 1980’s from a war torn country and fished every day for 30 years at this spot, he reminisced on how many fish used to be on offer and the better quality of fishing rods back then. it really made me appreciate this shot so much more
Somewhere in the Blue Mountains there is a town called Mountain Lagoon. There are no paved roads, only single lane dirt tracks and no stores or service stations that I could find. There are some great secluded swimming spots in the river at the bottom of a valley not too far from town. I saw no people but I did find a bunch of cows living on the edge of the forest. Follow me on Instagram @_freshgreenfreedom_ for more
This photo was taken at the Watsons Bay’s lighthouse, in Sydney Australia. We took the ferry at the end of the day and then walk 20 minutes to get there. We were almost running to not miss the sunset. To get the best shot I had to go at the edge of the cliff and some people yelled at me saying it was dangerous. I used a tripod and a filter to do a long exposure shot because it was still very luminous.
Experienced by Laura Cros
This place was my number one in my bucket list since I came to Australia. I wanted to be there during sunset. It’s really challenging to photograph this place because it’s the edge of the continent and therefore it’s impossible how windy it gets. At some point I was glad my camera didn’t flew off. In the end I made it. The most magical hour of the day captured at one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen in my life! It makes you wonder how beautiful this planet is. Millions of years displayed right in front of your eyes!
A pair of sunbirds live right outside my front door. I planted these flowers, and a few others, because I know they like to sip nectar from these flowers, and it has worked like a charm. For those who live in the Americas who are familiar with hummingbirds, sunbirds are the equivalent birds in Australia, through Asia and Africa. They are typically not quite as small as hummingbirds, but are usually very colourful, and can hover to sip nectar out of flowers. This is a male Olive-backed or Yellow-bellied sunbird.
A platypus photographed in semi-darkness in the evening with low-powered flash. This photo was taken at a popular spot to look for platypus in Yungaburra, so they are used to people. There had just been a tropical thunderstorm with lots of lightning so I was not worried about using flash, and the platypus seemed unperturbed by me or the camera. Unfortunately the photo is noisy, but with platypus, you count yourself lucky just to see one, never mind photograph it.
We spent nearly a week in Derby due to engine failure. While waiting for the car to be fixed, we hired a motorbike from the only rental shop in town and headed out to see the wharf at sunset. Derby has the highest tides of any Australian port with a tidal difference of 11 metres. It was so peaceful here at this time, however, and we felt like we were at the end of the earth.
I’ve seen them pictured online, but experiencing the glow worms in person was phenomenal. The way they scattered the walls, very much alive and wiggling. I learned they’re not actually worms, but larvae that feed for 9 months, then live as adults for 2-3 days. That’s just enough time to mate, lay eggs, and die. An unfortunate life in my opinion, but man are they beautiful.
