Lifestyle and Hobbies

Life Style

ABC : ABC News
Our national broadcaster has one of the country's top sites - the very best on-line media offering. A great breaking news site, hundreds of local radio stations, video, audio, a wide spectrum of subjects from children through arts & culture, sports, religion, health, rural, etc. There's also an on-line shop and an excellent weather reporting area. Something for everyone.

Baby Boomers Life Change
A website full of "Sea change" information to help you through the transition from full time employment to a more relaxed lifestyle.

Hobbies and Interest

Birds Australia
This national group of people devoted to the conservation and study of birds has a number of observatories that would be of interest to CMCA members. They also own large bush properties which require maintenance by volunteers (while camped).

Degree Confluence Project
The goal of the project is to visit each of the latitude and longitude integer degree intersections in the world, and to take pictures at each location. The pictures and stories will then be posted here.

Fossicking areas in Qld
Qld Govt website with lists of designated and "general permission" gem fossicking areas.

Miscelaneous

Australian Bureau of Meteorology (Weather forcasts & Radar)
Detailed forecasts for everywhere in Australia. Check out the weather radar; you can watch what's happening - live. The Loop mode on the Radar screen replays the last 4 images so you can tell what's coming your way.

Australian Geographic
The magazine site

Australian Netguide
NetGuide is not a computer magazine - NetGuide is a consumer magazine written in plain English "which gets you the best stuff on the Net. Articles are written in a non-technical way so anyone can follow the information." Plenty of info on their website too.

Bush Poet - the Goondiwindi Grey
"Chris and I have for the past five years been performing our bush verse and yarn show, Laughter and Tears from the Bush" along the Matilda Highway in Queensland and for the last three years at the Bailey Bar Caravan Park at Charleville. We have met so many folk over the years and we would like to let them know that we now have a new web site and would love them to have a browse and say g'day. All the best for 2003, Merv Webster

Camp Oven Cooking in Australia
Designed to promote camping and camp oven cooking in Australia. It contains ideas and tips for camp oven cooking, recipes, camping sites and links to camping, cooking and outdoor sites in Australia and around the world.

MagBaz Travels
Barry & Margaret welcome you to view their stories of round the world travel by Bicycle and Motorhome. Inspirational site worth a look.

National Highway One
"Australia is the world's largest island and its community has been shaped and formed by tracks that became roads and later highways. National Highway One is unlike any other road system on the planet. It represents one of the most profound engineering and planning feats in our nation's history. The highway runs more than 24,000 kilometres right around Australia and every day more than a million people travel on some part of it. Prime movers and semi-trailers worth in excess of three billion dollars ply its trade routes, along with hundreds of thousands of cars and other vehicles.For some the road is their livelihood, for others a form of recreation and escape. For nearly a quarter of million people living outside Australia's capital cities, the highway, or somewhere just off it, is home.With this in mind the ABC's National Highway One team set out to record and present the story of the road. In a 30 part series that involved driving more than 25,000 kilometres, the brief was deceptively simple: Give the road its voice.Over six months, two sets of tyres and hundreds of interviews with everyone from truck drivers to outback service station attendants and historians the National Highway One series, like its subject, took on a life of its own. It became as much the story of modern life in non-metropolitan Australia as it was the story of one long strip of bitumen."

Sandflies
A very informative site on Sandflies (midges), how to deter and how to sooth bites!