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  • Capricorn Caves

    ByGreta

    The Capricorn Caves are not far off the Bruce Highway just north of Rockhampton. We’d passed the sign many times but today we booked a tour and headed south from Mackay. Although the rain event we’d heard about was mainly further south of Hervey Bay, the clouds gathered up here, chucking down a passing shower…

  • A typical Australian summer

    ByGreta

    Sun, surf, and sand, yeah? Barbies at the beach, or next to the backyard swimming pool. That’s the ideal. But it’s Fake News, folks. In the real world, record-breaking rain (really record breaking, not that pretend stuff) has drenched Far North Queenslan. The drought has ended but now cattle are dying in their thousands because…