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เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 16 ธ.ค. 2012
Whether you’re a long-time travel tragic or a newbie explorer, if you’re interested in local history and intrigued by the places and people who contribute to it, then you’re amongst friends right here!
Welcome to Guidelooks, an ongoing travel blog series shot and shared by Queenslanders Heather and Lou, who’ve been documenting their love for regional Australia and further afield for a decade.
From Cooladdi to Cooktown and the Scenic Rim all the way to Saigon, the name of the game is shining a light on special spots and bringing to life some of their lesser known stories.
So, if that’s up your street, we’d love it if you’d take a look, throw us a Like and Subscribe to the channel to be kept up-to-date with our latest wanderings.
Welcome to Guidelooks, an ongoing travel blog series shot and shared by Queenslanders Heather and Lou, who’ve been documenting their love for regional Australia and further afield for a decade.
From Cooladdi to Cooktown and the Scenic Rim all the way to Saigon, the name of the game is shining a light on special spots and bringing to life some of their lesser known stories.
So, if that’s up your street, we’d love it if you’d take a look, throw us a Like and Subscribe to the channel to be kept up-to-date with our latest wanderings.
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Sapa
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When you are on a Grandma tour the best way to get around Sapa is on the back of a motorbike and topping it off with a home cooked lunch shared at our driver's house. In between taking in the spectacular scenery and stopping to watch the locals.
Making Tofu
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Have you ever wondered how to make fresh tofu? This video shows you how they do it in Vietnam.
Mungindi
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Mungindi is uniquely situated on both sides of the NSW and Queensland Border. Divided by the Barwon River, it is the only border town in the Southern Hemisphere with the same name in two states. The 2.5km Mungindi Sculpture Trail, is an open-air art gallery. It features10 rustic sculptures by award-winning local artist Tony ‘Nicko’ McMillan.
Bai Tu Long Bay
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As an alternative to HaLong Bay we went to Cai Rong Pier and took the local ferry and travelled through Bai Tu Long out to Quan Lan Island. It took around 3 hrs or thereabouts and we got to really enjoy the scenery and life along the bay.
A Slice of Paradise
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There is nothing like an early morning stroll along a tropical beach with hardly anyone around except for a Cassowary. I bet you wish you were here!
Innisfail in Queensland
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Innisfail is a small town located in the Cassowary Coast Region, Queensland, Australia between Mission beach and Cairns and is a great place to visit. It’s primarily a sugar cane and banana town. It remains relatively untouched by the tourist boom and has the finest collection of Art Deco buildings anywhere in Australia. The town was originally called Geraldton but a Russian ship bound for Gera...
Thallon and the Big Truck Pull
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The murals painted on these 4 silos feature the icons of the area, the amazing sunsets, the pale faced rosellas, the scarred tree along the Moonie River recognising the Indigenous Community, and a mob of sheep. I also got to enjoy the Thallon Truck Pull where teams of 6 pit themselves agains a big truck....
Texas or What Else Can Go Wrong!
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The plan was to have a nice easy trial run to the township of Texas in Queensland, Australia. I wanted to get a feel for travelling solo towing a caravan. Things did not go to plan!
Babinda , the wettest town in Australia
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Babinda is situated on the Bruce Highway, and just south of Cairns. The town lies in the shadow of Queensland’s two highest mountains; Mt Bartle Frere (1622m) and Mt Bellenden Kerr (1593m). The appeal of the town is the rainforest surrounding the town: the beautiful, if dangerous, "The Boulders", on Babinda Creek and the Josephine Falls. Babinda is known as ‘Australia’s Wettest town’ with an av...
Chillagoe
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The small township of Chillagoe is found on the Wheelbarrow Way, just west of Mareeba in the northern part of Queensland, Australia. It features spectacular limestone caves, small galleries of Aboriginal rock art, jagged limestone outcrops and an historically significant mining site, just to name a few. It also has a bank vault but no bank!
Feeding the Gropers in Cooktown
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When the tide is up in Cooktown head dow to the Cook’s Landing Kiosk to see the Gropers come in for a feed of Tuna or Mackerel carcasses. You’ll be amazed at their size, and they aren’t even fully grown yet.
Croydon in far north Queensland
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Croydon is an amazing and quaint town on the Savannah Highway in far north Queensland. It's a town with a big history that started with the discovery of gold in 1885. You can enjoy living history through static displays and by visiting the businesses still operating from the 1880’s.
Normanton
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Normanton, located on the Savannah Way is a small country town in the north of Queensland. In the mid 1880’s gold was discovered at the nearby town of Croydon and a train line was established between the two towns. The line is still in use 150 years later and the Gulflander train is a popular tourist attraction. Another unique feature is the huge life size replica of Krys, the Savannah King the...
Lou's Healey Time
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Lou was in the throes of a love affair with Austin Healey's since he was a 12-year old growing up in regional South Australia. In his early 20s he bought his first Healey, but as often happens he sold it on when we started a family. When the kids were all grown up and had left home, he wasted no time in putting his mechanic’s eye and ear to good use and picking up our second. With many hours sp...
All you wanted to know about Cassowaries
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All you wanted to know about Cassowaries
Finch Hatton, where you can find platypus or a paddle of platypus
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Finch Hatton, where you can find platypus or a paddle of platypus
An early morning stroll around the Lagoon Walk in Injune
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An early morning stroll around the Lagoon Walk in Injune
The Foot Sloggers - Vietnam Veterns' Stories
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The Foot Sloggers - Vietnam Veterns' Stories
Very interesting. ThQ. Noted. Mumbai
Could you please teach me step by step of this recipe?
Great video sir. I like it!
Hello how do i move there with my family and ge paid
Hey, very well done Heather adn Lou!!! Loved the storytelling and video. Come back to FNQ anytime.
Great to see you out there adventuring Heather. David GC Tool Library
Don't let this video fool you the town is a shitwhole I would know I live here
Oh really? Can I ask what you don’t like about it? Your input would be very valuable to me
All the drugs even at school when I went there was shit tons of drugs and a lot of the site are just covered in rubbish and a lot of people here aren't really all that accepting of anyone who is gay
Thanks for the video Heather we traveling to Vietname later this year and looking at doing something like you did who was your guide and how did you contact him
It was a private tour and I did the itinerary of where we went to. I had Miss Lily from Voyage2Vietnam organised all the accommodation, vehicle, driver and guide. The guide’s name was Tuân. While you are up north see if you can fit in going to Ban Gioc Waterfall, it’s very impressive. Enjoy you trip
Bloody good video.
Thanks
Thanks for that lovely video. I'm exited to visit Revenshoe in August 2024
Great video Thanks for the insight
Thanks for watching!
This was very cool to learn how it's made.
Thanks, Heather. It's a different world out there. Very informative.
Beautiful
I love exploring small towns, interesting video and nice town history.
Always wanted to see a cassowary, looks great place
Great video, looks like a lovely place.
very informative, like it
May I know,, What is the type of cloth that you use to steam it?
Can't wait to visit this interesting place, H. It looks more peaceful than Halon Bay. You have done a great job with this post. Cheers Judy X
Hi Heather & Lou, thanks for the video, it rekindled some great memories. I was the Police Officer there for 3 years from ‘84 through ’86. It was a one man Station of course and Windorah School had only one Teacher who taught all Primary School classes from 1 to 7. When my wife and I arrived our 3 kids took the pupil enrolment from 9 to 12. The Western Star hotel was the only one in town, but not the only one in my Division, the other being the Betoota Hotel about 200 km away, roughly half way to Birdsville. It was operating at the time but when the Licencee Sigmund ‘Ziggy’ Remienko passed away some years after I left it closed, although I believe it has recently been reopened. At one time, pre motor vehicle, there were a chain of hotels spaced about one day horse power apart but they are all long gone and very difficult to locate, a local guide is definitely needed, there is little or nothing left to see. There had been a hotel on the Windorah bank of Cooper Creek 12 km from town which was washed away in a flood. Those red sand dunes on Ourdel Station are great aren’t they, my wife and I would sometimes take our kids there to play and picnic. Sandy Kidd, the owner, was a friend of ours and we would often visit each other for meals and socialising. His wife was a Registered Nurse and as the town didn’t have a resident Doctor, the Royal Flying Doctor Service had provided her with a key to their medical supplies in case of need before they could arrive. His family had owned Mayfield Station close to Windorah and when Sandy obtained his property the name was taken from Lourdes, a pilgrimage town in the Pyrenees, France, the letters shuffled to make Ourdel. (Our Dell) Unfortunately Mayfield homestead had burned to the ground while I was at Windorah, very sad. When there was a Search & Rescue exercise organised I would accompany Sandy in his Cessna while his and other aircraft grid patterned the area. I loved seeing the countryside from his light plane, just magic, beautiful. Cheers
Hi Rory I am glad you enjoyed the video. You are a wealth of information about the area. As Lou said it seems everything is 12 kms out of town. 😀
I think it's a another version of Indian rice Pappad
Yes I am from maharashtra and we use exactly the same method to make steamed rice papad( in marathi - tandlache papad - recipe is available on youtube ) And very much common in southern india too. And also there are many other ways to make rice papad
an ironic waterfall in east asia, greeting from Malaysia
The sand dune is named after legendary local grazier Sandy Kidd of Mayfield station now named Ourdel station. Sandy was an amazing bush pilot and performed many rescues and services for the local community and authourities in his Cessna 172. He pioneered aerial mustering and an environmentalist protecting the Cooper Creek floodplains. Just ask any local about Sando's sand dune.
I found it to be a dreary uninteresting place full nice fat people when I was stranded there once.
Lost its charm to modern day values used to be a gem of a town I was born Wongan 1948 lived there on and off for 58 years went down after 23 years for personal reasons and boating told to move on by council as being in my self contained motor home Considered camping but could not answer why threatened $175 fine not a very friendly town.
This is such an interesting video! Love it!
Absolutely amazing! I just made my own spring rolls using rice paper and saw the net design and now I understand how it gets it! This craft/trade is impeccable!
My father was born in Warialda in 1913, my grandmother was also born there 1893, she was from a large family that had lived in the Yetman area and finally settled on a property they called "Glenridding" just outside Warialda. My grandfather born in 1890, was from Clermont in Queensland, also from a large family, his father was mining on what was to become Blair Athol.. later to have hotels/pubs in town. Unfortunately after my grandfather had left town, several family members died in the catastrophic flood of 1916. In 1912 he ended up in Warialda, were he married and started a family, that later set up a sawmill on Gragin Rd. in town. I have photos from the 1940's of my parents, grandparents and other family members taken on one of their many picnics at Cranky Rock.. a beautiful setting. As kids, we had lots of trips to see family - many still living there today, but sadly were never taken Cranky Rock, so thank you for the tour! I'm lucky to live on the Sydney's Northern Beaches, were we still have untouched native bushland... at least for now! Clermont history is well documented with photos - as the town was moved by steam engine to higher ground, away from the lagoon after the flood. Many of these photos survive, it's a town well worth a visit. Thanks again. Denise
I’m glad it brought back memories for you
Prawn catches were processed in Karumba by Mark well and by Bob Mostyn.
UGLY TATTOOS city slicker FULL ON
City slickers
Good Video. Thanks
Australia 🇦🇺 she a beautiful place
It certainly is
very informative, have to go there
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Thanks guys ☺️ we are heading there in a week. Very helpful video. 🌼
Enjoy
I live in Morocco and i love this hats so bad that i want one of it but I'm far away now i want to make it by myself but i don't have the materials .. thanks for the video
This is absolutely amazing! Would love to rebuild that entertainment building over there. Such a lovely place…
Loved it. Look forward to seeing more.
Great story. Glad you survived.
Looks like hard work. Must be good hearted or just used to a life of working, for that! Thanks for posting videos
love to run a detector around that place
Good job my dear. Come visit us Ray and Fay
Thanks for this :)
My mom was born there in 1929 and lived on a big cattle station. I was curious what Warialda looked like. I can imagine. I lived in Australia for 10 years and fell in love with the bush and gum trees. Magical place. I lived mainly on the coast Manly to Palm Beach but loved wandering in the reserves. I heard all the stories and now can see in my mind the town and people and history. Thanks for that.
Ingredients used to make the rice paper ?