Wanting a bit of break from the city we decided to head down for a weekend of camping at Gillards Beach in Tathra, NSW Mimosa Rocks National Park.

This park features a rugged and scenic coastline with many beaches enjoyed by surfers, fishers, snorkelers, birdwatchers and sightseers. Many natural sculptures occur on headlands, cliffs and rock stacks.

Bushcamping is permitted at Middle Beach, Picnic Point, Aragunnu and Gillards Beach. Fees apply, payable on site. Picnic facilities with barbecues also available.

The park is located 22 km north-east of Bega, off the Tathra-Bermagui Road.

The Kangaroos were quite tame and used to human presence, almost peering into our tent. Paradoxically this added to the sense of camping in the bush and made for very pleasant mornings, once the city slicker Canadian squatting lessons were concluded and over.

We've really enjoyed this weekend with beautiful sunrises, wide expenses of beaches and bushland and even some Aboriginal sacred sites in an adjoining National Park.

All in all an excellent weekend with the following being some of my selected images:

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In September 2008 I was compelled by circumstances beyond my mortal control to travel to Canada. It was there that I met Wendy, my life partner who has come back to live with me in Australia.

It was also during this stay that I also experienced the awesomeness of Canada, the friendly people and beautiful nature. Having stayed in Ontario I spent a few days in Toronto and then explored around the area staying by Lake Huron, visiting the honeymoon capital of America, Niagara Falls, and hanging around the Burlington, Kitchener and Hamilton regions.

The following are some of my selected images:

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To state the obvious, China is a very large country with so much to see that a person could spend a whole lifetime exploring this vast land, engulfed in it's cultural diversity and deep rooted history. My ten days, seemed hardly enough. Still combined with my Mongolian cycle adventure, time and other commitments didn't allow me the luxury of a longer visit, at least this time around....

Therefore armed with my trusty camera and some travel advice I spent sixty hours on trains, between Beijing and Guilin, and had just less then a week in the wonderful tourist mecca that is the town of Yangshuo by the Li River. I also ended up being in Beijing on three different occasions, getting to like this city more with each visit.

China with it's people has to be seen to be experienced and appreciated. It is also most definitely worth the visit. Now that I have a better idea of how to go about traveling there, I plan on coming back with more specific provinces and areas in mind, while staying for at least a month.

The following are some of my selected images:

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Besides the long stretches of the Gobi desert, which coincidentally covers an area of over 30% of the country, Mongolian landscape consists of rolling green hills with grazing herds of goats, cattle, horses and yaks. Mongolia is a country of nomads with the idea of farming still being a bit of a foreign concept to most. Thus as long as the land they're set on provides sufficient pasture for their herds, they remain, the moment the grass runs out, the families pick up their Ger dwellings and move in search of greener fields.

The following are some of my selected images of the Mongolian countryside:

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