Travel 24 hours ‘on safari’ by Kaye Martin WE awoke to find tigers watching us through the window … and the next night we slept in a tree house and our early morning greeters were giraffes … oh, and I mustn’t forget our encounter with the sun bears. Guest Writer 13 Mar 2024
Travel Travel - 24 hours in Binalong Bay TASMANIA is listed among the world’s top 30 ‘must visit places in 2024’ by the New York Times. Guest Writer 17 Jan 2024
Travel Travel - 24 hours in El Nido IT WAS a humid, hot Christmas (are there any other in Queensland?), when I booked an ‘island hopping’ experience in the Philippines. Guest Writer 20 Dec 2023
Travel Travel - 24 hours in Christmastime London IF WE were to talk about the best time to make an extended stay in London, I would say it is the best city in the world in summertime. Guest Writer 14 Dec 2023
Travel Travel - 24 hours in Tuscany “It’s the wonder of it. You’re walking through history … through a town that has changed little since the Middle Ages … it’s the living, breathing definition of Medieval!” Guest Writer 06 Dec 2023
Travel Travel - 24 hours in Yarrangobilly Rainwater seeps down into the earth for almost a kilometre where it’s heated before it bubbles back up through the porous rock and then flows through a man-made pool at a rate of around 100,000 litres per hour before eventually pouring into the Yarrangobilly River. Guest Writer 21 Nov 2023
Travel Travel - 24 hours in Athens THE Acropolis dominates the skyline of Athens. A straightforward statement we’d read many times. We’d seen the photographs. We should have been prepared. We were not. Our taxi from the airport took us into Athens after dark. Guest Writer 15 Nov 2023
Travel Travel - 24 Hours in Cactus Country TO MY travelling companion, it was an absolute, not to be swerved from, Instagram-able must. Guest Writer 08 Nov 2023
Ipswich Dam restocking to lure the fishos THERE are now more than 50,000 extra chances for Ipswich fishos to ‘strike it rich’ while wetting a line for bass at Wivenhoe Dam. Rob Mellett 08 Nov 2023
Travel Elsewhere - Fishing Villages There are 430 habited Islands in Japan, so there are bound to be a few thousand fishing villages spread among them. Drew Creighton 01 Nov 2023
City Life Clean-up heroes swoop into action ENVIRONMENTAL action group Ocean Crusaders last week rolled up their sleeves to tackle a mountain of trash that had built up at Brookwater’s Opossum Creek. Rob Mellett 01 Nov 2023
Nature Bird in the bush worth two at vets WILDLIFE carers are urging Good Samaritans not to take healthy baby birds from their natural habitats during the rearing season. Rob Mellett 25 Oct 2023
City Life Busy bees calming veterans’ minds THEY say the wounds of war come in many guises. Rob Mellett 25 Oct 2023
Ipswich AI tech keeps eye out for koalas PIONEERING researchers at the forefront of saving the koala have welcomed a funding boost for extra AI technology to map the marsupial’s movements. Rob Mellett 11 Oct 2023
Nature Native garden utopia opens to the public CREATED to be both hugely productive, but also as a haven for native wildlife like our beautiful bees, Becca and Trent Chandler’s Basin Pocket garden is a little slice of paradise. Rob Mellett 04 Oct 2023
Ipswich Fish expert calls out lungfish grant A LEADING fish expert has labelled as a “drop in the ocean” government funding for rehabilitating local waterways for the endangered Australian lungfish. Rob Mellett 27 Sep 2023
Ipswich Family life is a real hoot THERE’S pure, natural magic waiting to be found just outside our doors. Rob Mellett 20 Sep 2023
Outdoors Spring into school holiday fun WITH the spring school holidays upon us and the last nip of winter in the rear-view mirror, now is a great time to explore what’s on our doorstep. Rob Mellett 13 Sep 2023
City Life The weird and wonderful world of orchids ORCHIDS are symbols of refinement and fertility – an intriguing beauty with the power to evoke joy and tranquillity – plus lots of them are also downright bizarre. Rob Mellett 06 Sep 2023