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carolyntate

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Carolyn is a freelance journalist based in Brisbane, Australia. Well before she figured out how to write a decent article, she bought an around-the-world plane ticket and travelled around the US, Europe, South East Asia, and Australia working in every menial job you can think of. This set her up for a lifetime of curiosity and learning from others, the skills to clean a toilet that you could eat your dinner off, and the ability to ask where the nearest police station is in a dozen languages. These days she enjoys a little more luxury in her travel, and prefers someone else to do the cleaning.

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Big Merino in Goulburn, Australia. (Wikimedia Commons)

Goulburn, Australia

Big Merino

Three-story concrete ram with a permanent gift shop.

Abbotsford Convent.

Abbotsford, Australia

Abbotsford Convent

This 19th-century convent is now a flourishing 21st-century hub for art.

Taxidermied Phar Lap

Melbourne, Australia

Phar Lap

Taxidermy of the racing horse with a huge heart, who inspired hope in the Depression.

Giant Ram

Wagin, Australia

Giant Ram

Everything about this over-size novelty animal is huge including its testicles.

The Big Banana in Coffs Harbour. (Wikimedia Commons)

Coffs Harbour, Australia

Big Banana

One of the first big sculptures anywhere in Australia.

Cook's Cottage

Melbourne, Australia

Captain Cook's Cottage

The 18th-century home was disassembled into 253 cases and brought all the way from the other side of the world.

Big Potato in Robertson, Australia. (Wikimedia Commons)

Robertson, Australia

Big Potato

Concrete spud looks like the North American Sebago.

Streets Beach

Brisbane, Australia

Streets Beach

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

AC/DC Lane.

Melbourne, Australia

AC/DC Lane

A colorful street named for the legendary Australian rock band.

The Big Prawn.

West Ballina, Australia

The Big Prawn

There's nothing shrimpy about the world's largest artificial prawn.

March 2023

Ballandean, Australia

Ballandean Pyramid

A huge stone pyramid built for fun.

Famous marker of a Queensland farm (Flickr/marj k)

Woombye, Australia

The Big Pineapple

A giant Australian fruit and tropical farm.

SS Maheno

Fraser Island, Australia

SS Maheno

WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.

Just look for the shed full of books.
Permanently Closed

Bardon, Australia

Logical Unsanity Books & Miscellaneous Phantasmagoria

This rickety old shed hides a trove of secondhand literary treasures.

The Tenth Drop forming in October 2021

Brisbane, Australia

The Pitch Drop Experiment

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

Kiama Blowhole

Kiama, Australia

Kiama Blowhole

This massive water spout has been luring visitors for hundreds of years, some to their death.

Port Arthur Penitentiary

Port Arthur, Australia

Port Arthur Penal Colony

Relics of Australia's convict past, and a modern scene of unimaginable horror.

Fruit Bat!

Fairfield, Australia

Fruit Bats of Yarra Bend Park

Is there such thing as too many fruit bats? Not anymore.

Yellow Brick Road Maze

Promised Land, Australia

Tasmazia and the Village of Lower Crackpot

A huge maze complex and whimsical miniature village in Tasmania.

A little penguin.

St Kilda, Australia

St. Kilda Pier Penguin Colony

You'll find the little birds tucked within the rocks of this Australian beach.

Three Sisters

Katoomba, Australia

Three Sisters

This trio of Australian rock spires may have inspired aboriginal legend or just modern tourism.

Royal Botanic Gardens

Sydney, Australia

Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney

Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!

Bay of Fires

Ansons Bay, Australia

Bay of Fires

Aqua white sand highlighted with fiery red rocks.

Warning signs at the Phillip Island penguin site

Ventnor, Australia

Penguin Parade At Phillip Island

An unphotographable nightly march of tens of thousands of "fairy penguins" from sea to shore.

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