Although Tustin has a population of 80,000 people and is located in the Los Angeles Metropolitan area, the city maintains an old-world, small-town feel. After all, Tustin’s nickname is The City of Trees, due to the abundance of – you guessed it – trees lining the streets. Many historical buildings are still standing in the …
In picture-perfect rural scenery about 20 minutes in from the coast, Lismore is a town feted for its culture. A big contingent of artists and musicians call this place home, and there’s a surfeit of cafes and pop-up galleries. The cornerstone of the local arts scene is the Lismore Regional Gallery, staging must-see exhibitions and …
Pleasanton is a city of about 70,000 people situated in Alameda County in the San Francisco Bay area. The city is known for its central location and mild weather throughout most of the year. Pleasanton is home to many parks and green spaces, where visitors can participate in a wide range of outdoor activities, including …
An agricultural town in West Gippsland’s, Warragul is on a plain between the Great Dividing Range in the north and the Strzelecki Ranges in the south. This is the economic, service and cultural centre of West Gippsland, found along a corridor of settlements threaded by the Princes Highway. Warragul hosts one of Victoria‘s premier farming …
Victoria‘s Great Ocean Road ends just east of this enticing coastal city, which puts you within a short trip of natural wonders like the Twelve Apostles and Bay of Martyrs. Here craggy stacks, arches and caves have been sculpted from multicoloured limestone by the raging Southern Ocean. This is a coastline with a harrowing past, …
A vibrant university town, Bathurst is set high in the Central Tablelands of New South Wales, where the climate is cool and temperate. This is Australia’s oldest inland settlement, going back all the way to 1814, and its development through the 19th century was spurred on by a Gold Rush in the 1860s. The streets …
The fast-developing town of Drouin is on the Princes Highway, 90 kilometres east of Melbourne. Like its close neighbour Warragul, Drouin is on a plain between the peaks of the Strzelecki Ranges in the south and the first spurs of the Great Dividing Range in the north. There are rainforest covered valleys, waterfalls and scenic …
The story of Kalgoorlie in the Western Goldfields starts in 1893 when a pair of prospectors found 100 ounces of alluvial gold close by at Mount Charlotte. So began the Western Australia Gold Rush and the gradual discovery of an immense goldfield, the Golden Mile, that continues to produce gold in huge quantities to this …
On Western Australia‘s Coral Coast, Geraldton is a crucial seaport, exporting grains, livestock and minerals, but also the base for a lucrative lobster fishery. There’s a gentler side to the city, at its string of beaches and their newly regenerated foreshore, and as a departure point for the Houtman Abrolhos, an archipelago feted for its …
The first settlement in Western Australia was founded in 1826 at a safe anchorage shielded from the inhospitable Southern Ocean. Albany is on a perfect natural harbour, discovered in 1791 by Captain George Vancouver and resting in the embrace of the Torndirrup Peninsula. For seven months of the year humpbacks, southern right and blue whales …