By the time Tony co-founded Lonely Planet Publications in 1973, he already had the travel bug. And ever since, travel and discovery have been at the heart of his life and career.
Silo art has become an attraction all over rural Australia in the last few years. Check this website for an excellent overview of the story all over the continent. In April last year I spent two days following the silo art trail in the Wimmera region in the north-west...
Well I’ve posted about where I haven’t been going, about my empty city of Melbourne and where I have been travelling recently – walking and cycling along Melbourne’s Yarra River. ▲ And visiting Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport. It was a rare opportunity to see a de...
Of course international travel has completely shut down and in Australia even domestic travel doesn’t extend very far. We really can’t travel interstate at the moment. So I’ve been walking and cycling along the Yarra River, the river which runs, from source to sea, fo...
Want to fly down to Adelaide, spend three days on a new luxury train service to Brisbane, fly back home to Melbourne and write a story about it the man from the Daily Telegraph in London enquired? Sure, why not I agreed, although I was somewhat puzzled that they knew ...
My new book from the National Library of Australia – Tony Wheeler’s Islands of Australia – features a section on the islands of Torres Strait, the 274 islands that dot the shallow strait which separates Cape York (the northern tip of the state of Queensland) from Papu...
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