Here’s a tip on how to take good pictures. Photography can be complicated, but this is one tip for point and shoot. There are lots of people snapping pictures at the Twelve Apostles. Bad pictures. Some of them have fancy DSLR cameras. Others have simple point-and-shoot cameras or are using mobile devices. This is not …
Boomerangs are an Australian icon. It’s one of the most popular souvenirs. You see them in all the tourist shops and museum gift shops. Most of these are overpriced and they may not fly well. I wanted to get some real boomerangs for my family and friends back home. The boomerang is tens of thousands …
Last week I blogged about 12 dangerous Australian animals. Most of them are pretty obvious – spiders, snakes, sharks. But Australia has also cute and fuzzy animals that can kill you. They are especially nefarious because, well, they’re so darn cute. Australian Dingo: “Who’s a good boy? You are! Yes, you are!” Aw, look how …
Here’s a handy dandy list of 12 dangerous Australian animals out to kill us all. Redback spider: Belonging to the widow family of spiders, no redback spider-related deaths have been reported since the introduction of the antivenom in 1984. I guess that’s encouraging, but its bite is said to cause severe pain. On the bright …
How to sleep? I have no idea. You know when you’re really excited about something and you can’t sleep the night before? I haven’t slept since July. I’ve had poor sleeping habits for a long time. Growing up, my parents were not strict about a bed time. I often stayed up late, got up early …