Just to get away from politics for a while - I thought
it would be interesting to share with others some memorable
places of interest - places that you'd like to re-visit
frequently.

I love Brunswick Street, Fitzroy here in Melbourne.

Its a spirited, combination
of old and new, rich and poor, with a very wide choice of
restaurants. Commercially, the contradiction of Brunswick
Street can be seen - with whimsical ventures like the Fitzroy
Nursery and its fantastic Art Nouveau-kitsch gates, sitting
next to many old-style and new - businesses. Brunswick Street
is open Saturday and Sundays, and its the best place in
Melbourne to find unconventional and imaginative clothing and
gifts, many of which are made in over-the-shop work rooms.

People flock from all over Melbourne to eat - Portugese,
Thai, Italian, French, Indian, Afghani, Malaysian, Japanese,
and African food in the street's United Nations of eateries.

What are some of your favourite places?

Thanks Lexi, I actually think its a good idea to get away for a while.
And like the thread .
Cathrine Hill Bay love it quite and calm still but not for long, it was a coal miners coastal town.
Now? if plans go ahead you could once have bought the village,pub and all, for the price of a house.
Seal Rocks, nice place about to follow,such is life.
I like mountains, in the wilderness, about the place Malcolm Nadean was found.
Will find new peaks and new views just sit and try the ham radio .
The Blue Nob, Australia must have 100 of them, we name too many places the same.
But out the back of Mount George on the mid north coast of NSW, long trip but returning via Ellinbouro falls? no better trip any place.

Dear Belly,

The Great Ocean Road offers wonderful rewards.
At almost every curve or crest another spectacular
fan of land a seascape spreads before you. Places
like Torquay, Bells Beach, Anglesea Lorne, all
have their own attractions.

Then there's
the stretch of the Great Ocean Road from Apollo Bay
to Cape Otway that leads through the deepest and wettest
section of the Otway Ranges.

The Otway National Park
with its high rainfall species (mountain ash, manna gum,
myrtle beech and a vast range of ferns and mosses) engulfs
you with its characteristic dank smell. As well there is
such a wide variety of native fauna - bandicoots,
possums, platypuses and echidna, as well as a rich variety
of bird-life - white goshawks, yellow-tailed cockatoos,
jet black gang-gangs - just another great area to visit.

AWL (Aren't we lucky) in this country.

Australia before Whitlam.

Lexi, some of my special places are:

Mt Zero – The Australian Wildlife Conservancy property close to Townsville, where I have done many botanical expeditions and discovered a host of new plants.

The Pinnacles near Townsville, where I found a new species – Dubouzetia saxatilis, (which is still only known from the one locality despite my wide searches for it in the region) about 24 years ago and made many subsequent trips,

Castle Hill right in the centre of Townsville, where I go running most days and perving on the great abundance of young nubile leotard-clad lovelies!

Um….Hinchinbrook I, where I made lots of trips in the early 90s, did a lot of botanical collecting and mapped the vegetation.

White Mountains National Park, which was a new frontier when I first went there in ~1990, with amazing gorges with tree ferns way out in the semi-arid zone,

Girringun National Park (formerly Lumholtz NP) in the north Queensland Wet Tropics, where I discovered (as far as I know I sent the first specimen to the Qld Herbarium) a new plant now called Acacia lumholtzii and an as yet unnamed species of Kunzea.

Boodjamulla National Park (formerly Lawn Hill NP) in far northwest Queensland which I explored pretty thoroughly and did the vegetation mapping for.

And then there’s the Stirling Range in southwest WA, Cradle Mountain in Tas, Geikie Gorge and Purnululu NP in the Kimberleys,

Mt Warning, Byron Bay and that whole region, The Great Ocean Road where I spent some time very recently….

and soooooo much more

Oh and I forgot to mention hootin rootin tootin loosa goosa Noosa!

Wonderful place ……… with a great nudie beach and Alexandria Bay!!