Lake Derby’s Floating Sauna in Northeast Tasmania
Unlike health club saunas that are usually a pine box, this sauna has one transparent wall. As you sit in the sauna, you can see the sunlight on the dark lake, the eucalypt hills behind and the daytime crescent of the moon against a blue sky. It’s truly beautiful.
Outback Dip at Mitchell’s Great Artesian Spa
“It’s like Reykjavik’s Blue Lagoon but the Australian country town version.” That was me explaining the Great Artesian Spa in Mitchell, Queensland to my youngest son on our way there. And it turned out to be a delightful, refreshing, family-friendly pit-stop on an outback road trip.
Lord Howe Island
It is the ideal place to unwind, relax and appreciate the surrounding natural environment, and really, it is what you make of it: a virtual Choose Your Own Adventure destination.