Ok so I didn’t take this photo... my father did... in Paphos yesterday evening. So good I just had to share!

Who’d have thought that a washing machine drum would make such an excellent fireplace! All the holes allow oxygen in but the sides ensure enough heat is reflected back into the fire to burn efficiently

We recently went fishing on a charter boat out of Portland in Victoria in search of Tuna. For those overseas, Victoria is the southernmost state of mainland Australia. Here’s one that I caught... Like

As some of you may have realised I have an interest in looking for gold! There are two main ways you can search for gold, with a metal detector, and by panning. The former can find you some large nuggets

Good morning teamaustralia! After a much longer gap than I expected here is the newly updated teamaustralia map with all the additions requested on the last post here. If you'd like to be added, and are

During a recent tour around the golden triangle of Victoria I discovered a new campsite that I would like to share with you all called Melville caves camp ground. It stands close to the top of an interesting

Hi Steemians! I want to share with you a big cycling challenge I did 3 years ago that I'm proud about and tell you how it all came about. It is called the Dragon Devil and its one of the rides available

Why are some images so appealing to us that they actually seem to soothe the mind? I look at this picture of a sunset I took from busselton jetty recently and if I let it my mind is transported to a calm

This egret was happily sitting on the rail of a jetty at Mandurah WA and allowed me to get quite close Eventually he spread his wings and showed off magnificent white flight feathers The other bird sitting

This is a video taken on my first day out detecting with my minelab SDC2300 metal detector where I found a lovely 1.2 gram gold nugget. In fact it was taken in about the first half hour of stepping out

While out for a bike ride today we happened upon this copperhead snake who'd sadly met its end under a car wheel Not being Australian born I had to look up the snake species (I'm assuming most Australians

One of the things we really love about Australia having emigrated here from the UK is how easy it is to enjoy the outdoors. Not only is the weather conducive, and the countryside beautiful, but great effort

The Grampians are a well known National Park in Victoria about 3 hours west of Melbourne. They are a range of rugged sandstone hills seeming to rise abruptly out of the surrounding predominantly flat landscape

Do you have use gym balls at home? We use them to stretch, sit on and workout and try to prevent the dreaded bad back! But they take up quite a lot of space if you have more than one size for the different

We recently took a small camping tour of the eastern part of Victoria and our first stopover was in Omeo to visit the old gold mine workings there. What a fascinating place to take a walk around! Loving

My partner took this picture of me working in the garage cutting up some steel grills for one of my projects. Doesn't it look amazing with the sparks showering down like fireworks! If anyone can guess

As I have reblogged this trek I have been able to more carefully plot the route and distances covered than when I was walking so here is a final wrap up of the statistics: Total raised for Naomi's house

Hi everyone! Following the success and interest in the last teamaustralia map I have updated with all the people who commented on the last post here As I struggled to squeeze everyone around Brisbane and

Tuesday 29th June 2010 30 miles walking with a 4.30am start and I arrived at John O' Groats at 4pm. I stood at the signpost and bellowed my victory out to sea startling a few seagulls and tourists alike!

Monday 28th June 2010 Only 30 miles remain for me to reach John O' Groats! I walked 21 miles today along the coastal road and plan to do the rest tomorrow. With a 6am start I should be there by 5pm. Then