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An Australian Weekend

Monday, June 16th, 2008

A Weekend With Friends In Australia

By: Phoenix Arrien

We just spent the weekend with friends who live by the sea. Lakes Entrance is a lovely town on the south coast of Australia that offers both lakes and seaside tranquillity.

We arrived by train from Melbourne - took just under four hours - and headed to the beach where a long line of fisher folk cast their lines into the wild surf. Apparently it was a fishing competition.

Next day thirty vintage cars moved into the main street and parked in long rows so people could peer into their leathery insides, check out the motors and admire the ‘flaming’ paintwork.

The local market was on and people were swinging their clubs on the golf course. I joined the throngs browsing the bookstores, found an interesting book and settled into a cafe overlooking the waterfront called the ‘Six Sisters and a Pigeon’ (no sign of any pigeons but the sisters serve a bonza hot chocolate).

Yup, a weekend, in a small Australian town. Travelling Australia? Settle into a small town for the weekend.

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Australia’s Wild Ocean

Monday, June 9th, 2008

The Oceans of Australia

By: Phoenix Arrien

Well, we passed 2008 Environment Day last week so I am peppering this week’s posts with a few environmental thoughts. Today may be the day to mention an organisation to which I belong. The Wilderness Society is dedicated to helping preserve Australia’s wild places and one of their most interesting moves at the moment is to “secure some of our marine environment in fully protected marine parks, reduce the pressure from over-fishing, and help our amazing marine life to survive into the future for our kids and their kids to enjoy.”

A worthy mission eh?

Beyond the sandy beaches and rocky coastlines of this vast continent is an amazing underwater world, brimming with life, kelp forests, sponge gardens, coral reefs, turtles, dolphins, crabs, sea snails, and fish.

The Wilderness Society (TWS) have already had some campaign success resulting in fully protected marine parks for Ningaloo coral reef in WA, in parts of the Great Australian Bight off SA and in the Southern Ocean. TWS is slowly growing its marine campaign team around the country with active marine campaigns in New South Wales, South Australia, Western Australia, and the Northern Territory.

More information: www.wilderness.org.au/campaigns/

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