The biggest 50’s and 60’s nostalgia festival in Australia is the annual “Cooly Rocks On”.With over 2 kilometres of rock ‘n roll, rockabilly, swing music and over 1,000 hot rods, custom cars and classic vehicles lining the stunning beachfront of Coolangatta and Tweed Heads over two huge weeks from 29 May to 8 June 2015. This…
By 50 Shades, June 16, 2015
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
The second port of call on our Caribbean cruise was to the second smallest country in Central America, Belize. All ships anchor in Belize City harbour and passengers are whizzed from ship to shore via speedy Belizean tenders which takes approximately 20 minutes to tender ashore. Interesting Fact: Belize is the only English language-speaking country in Central America….
By 50 Shades, June 12, 2015
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
After we departed the Mississippi River Port of New Orleans on our cruise ship, the Norwegian Dawn, we cruised 160 kms down the river into the Gulf Of Mexico. Following a night and a full day of cruising we arrived at our first port of call, Cozumel. Cozumel is a mostly undeveloped island in the…
By 50 Shades, June 5, 2015
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
For part two of my Aussie Remarkable Rocks I am taking you to the far north-west of West Australia from Barn Hill Station, 128 kms south of Broome, to Broome and Cape Leveque and east to The Kimberley and the amazing Lake Argyle, near the West Australian/Northern Territory border. Barn Hill is situated on a Kimberley…
By 50 Shades, June 2, 2015
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
As most of you are aware I have recently been on a 19 day cruise out of New Orleans, USA to the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean. It was a holiday to treasure and it certainly changed my preconceived notions of what I thought a ship cruise holiday would be like. Getting away from it all…
By 50 Shades, May 22, 2015
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
For the last part of my Australian Beaches pictorial I am taking a tour of the southern state of Victoria in Australia to visit some of their spectacular coastline. Once you cross the New South Wales border heading south there is the tucked away fisherman’s paradise village of Mallacoota. Travelling further south you come to…
By 50 Shades, May 19, 2015
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
There is no doubt that here in Australia we like to simplify things. We either name our towns, waterways, mountains and headlands with aboriginal names, famous people names, after names of places in England or we just name them as we see them. So I have put a list together of other places in Australia that really need no…
By 50 Shades, May 6, 2015
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
My daughter and I spent a wonderful week in Bali a while ago. We had the loveliest time together doing the ‘girlie stuff’ such as indulging in a manicure/pedicure, treating ourselves to massages and body exfoliations, baking in the sun, drinking cocktails at sunset on the beach, stuffing ourselves with exquisite food and shopping in…
By 50 Shades, April 29, 2015
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
Six mature women, one luscious long weekend and a destination known as ‘Wine Country’. Sounds very dangerous to me! And so the WINOE’s (Women in need of entertainment) set off to Stanthorpe to indulge in the local fare. Just a short two and a half hour drive south-west of Brisbane, is the town…
By 50 Shades, April 15, 2015
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
They say the life of a sailor’s wife is very lonely and I can attest to that with the two men in my life, my husband and son, being avid (obsessive) boaties and fishermen. They bought a new fishing boat around six months ago and barely a weekend goes by that they aren’t out…
By 50 Shades, April 7, 2015
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
