From the monthly archives:

August 2009

Whales Southern Migration

August 31, 2009

We mentioned about the whales heading south from the Whitsundays in the last blog post and can confirm that whales are still being sighted off the coast from Mackay. We also mentioned that we would try to follow this up with a photo or two and just this evening were lucky enough to get a [...]

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Whale Sightings Slade Point

August 25, 2009

Yesterday I blogged about seeing whales heading north from the Mackay Marina, Queensland. Today at the same point, we spotted several pods of whales heading south. Anyone on the Slade Point Lookout, or walking along Lamberts Beach, would have had a front row seat to an amazing show. A pod of about 6 whales, with young [...]

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Whales In Whitsundays

August 24, 2009

If your going to the Whitsundays in the near future, keep on the lookout for whales as they are still swimming north to those wonderful tropical waters off Airlie Beach. Today, Monday August 24th, yours truly and eagle eyed partner Hypergurl, saw 3 pods of whales directly out from the Mackay Marina, swimming north. This was around [...]

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Wonderful hotel, fabulous value.

August 14, 2009

It wasn’t long ago that I blogged that Sheraton on the Park hotel, Sydney, was offering a hot winter special. I took that offer recently and am more than surprised that more and more people are not taking that offer seriously. Back home again after a 3 week working trip to Sydney, Canberra and the Snowy [...]

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Baby Elephant

August 13, 2009

Don’t wait too long before you go and see the new born baby elephant at Sydney’s Taronga Zoo. Named Luk Chai – which in Thai means “son”, the little one is growing fast and you must see him before his cuteness grows out of him. Luk Chai is remarkable because he is the very first [...]

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