The Gadgets, Apps and Websites I used for my Overseas Trip
Here are the travel gadgets, websites and apps that I purchased, used, downloaded and actually loved enough on my recent overseas trip to actually recommend them to you.
Exploring the Small Shops of Brisbane
Shop small, shop local and shop with curiosity. Here are some of Holiday Goddess favourite northside, southside and in-between bijoux Brisbane boutiques for hand-selected vintage, gifts and trinkets.
Thrifting the Light Fantastic: Fashion Tours with a Conscious
One of the best things about shopping with Marguerite was she got me looking at clothes and accessories in new ways. There was a gold belt with a buckle that featured a frog on a lily pond found at Vinnies. Marguerite suggested wearing the belt as a necklace (which I’ve since done).
Agnes Water: The Queensland Getaway You’ve Possibly Never Heard Of
For the past twenty years the buzz has been that Agnes Water will be the next Noosa. Lucky for us that hasn’t happened (sorry Noosa). Agnes Water and Seventeen Seventy are just a bit too remote and still feel like authentic beach holiday towns: think beach cricket, bushwalks and ice cream.
Take Me To Cradle Mountain
Tasmania’s Cradle Mountain has the kind of vista that appears on billboards and in beer commercials. It’s a glamorous, all natural spot. We travelled to Cradle Mountain from Hobart via Queenstown in a hire car. The road is winding and can be icy so don’t necessarily take the Google Maps estimate of travel time. Accommodation […]
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.
Magical, Mystical Carnarvon Gorge Deserves to be Explored
The Carnarvon Gorge National Park is nine-and-a-half hour’s drive northwest of Brisbane and it’s totally worth it. GETTING THERE We drove and drove. The roads are paved the whole way. Towards the national park there are cows as big as cars strolling across the bitumen. On the trip, I spied emus and kangaroos. For the […]
Escape to the Redlands: Wellington Point to King Island
At certain times of day, visitors can walk on a kilometre-long sandbar from Queensland’s Wellington Point to King Island. It’s a really cool experience to walk across the bay on a sandbar to a deserted island of mangroves.
Australian Outback Charmer: Charleville, Queensland
On a road trip from Brisbane to Longreach, we stopped by a handful of outback western Queensland towns. There were many delightful spots along the way. However, of all the outback destinations, Charleville charmed me the most.
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.
Jimbour is the Middle of Nowhere Surprise
Jimbour is one of Queensland’s great pastoral estates. At the peak of construction there were 200 workers on site. And since this story was written Jimbour now offers tours of its grand interior. Tours can be booked online
Snorkelling Day Trip to Tangalooma Resort, Moreton Island
A snorkelling day trip to Tangalooma resort on Moreton Island is (in my opinion) hands down the best one-off adventure from Brisbane. The day trip runs on a tight schedule, the feeling is total escape and the snorkelling is next level.