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Swansea NSW: The Bridge Town on Lake Macquarie
The bridge at Swansea NSW lifts open roughly 2,000 times a year — five or six times most days — to let boats pass between the ocean and Australia's largest…
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Redhead Beach: Home of the Last Original Shark Tower on Australia’s East Coast
There's a weathered timber tower standing over the sand at Redhead Beach that's believed to be the last surviving structure of its kind anywhere on Australia's east coast. Built by…
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Nobbys Lighthouse Newcastle NSW: The Coat-of-Arms Icon You Can Only Reach on Foot
There's no car park at Nobbys Lighthouse — not because of a modern parking crunch, but because the headland it sits on used to be a separate island. You walk…
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Things to Do in South West Rocks: 7 Picks Worth the Drive
Five hours north of Sydney, past the point where most people have already stopped for a break twice, sits a town of around 5,000 people that quietly ranks among Australia's…
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Ghosties Beach: The Rainbow Sea Caves Worth Getting the Tide Right For
Before anything else: if you've found this page searching for the Pink Caves nearby, read the safety note below first. Ghosties Beach is the one you actually want to visit…
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Gresford Australia: A Local’s Guide to Gresford and East Gresford, NSW
There are two villages called Gresford in the NSW Hunter Valley, sitting either side of the Allyn and Paterson Rivers, and even locals get them mixed up. There's Gresford —…
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Blue Pool Bermagui: The Complete Guide to the South Coast’s Most Photographed Rock Pool
There's a stretch of water off Blue Point in Bermagui that shifts through four colours before you've finished your swim — azure, then turquoise, fading to blush, then canary yellow…
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Westgate Park Pink Lake: When to See Melbourne’s Pink Lake
There's a lake under the West Gate Bridge that turns the colour of bubblegum in summer, and most people driving past have no idea it's there. It's not photoshopped, it's…
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The Complete Guide to the 1000 Steps, Dandenong Ranges (Kokoda Track Memorial Walk)
There aren't actually 1,000 steps. Depending on who's counted, it's somewhere between 770 and 870 — but by the time you're two-thirds up a steep, fern-lined climb through mountain ash…
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Paterson NSW Australia: The Third-Oldest Surveyed Town in the Hunter Valley
Paterson was surveyed before Dungog, before Gresford, before Clarence Town — third in the entire Hunter Valley after Newcastle and Maitland, though it wasn't officially proclaimed until 1833. That head…