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Tony On Holidays Visiting With Family

December 17, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ I’m spending three weeks with my daughter and her family in Rockhampton over this Christmas break, and that’s around 400 miles North of my home in Beenleigh, Queensland. Because of that, it is probably a little rude of me to spend so much time at the computer, so the Posts I […]

Tony Back On Deck Tomorrow

November 24, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ I’ll be back adding new Posts to our home site tomorrow Tuesday. My granddaughter has been staying with me for the last eight days. She had some major work commitments in Sydney with the Company she works for and after that was done, she spent eight days with me here. One […]

Tony Offline For A Few Days

November 19, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ I will be offline for a few days. My granddaughter is visiting and staying with me for a week, and it would be rude of me to spend time on the computer for the many hours I do spend each day. So, I know for sure that she’ll be going home […]

Tony’s Road Trip (Part Four)

November 16, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ In my younger days, I spent 25 years serving my Country as a member of Australia’s Military Forces, as an aircraft electrical tradesman working on various combat aircraft in the Royal Australian Air Force. For ten of those years, I was based at Williamtown. This base is close to where I spent […]

Tony’s Road Trip (Part Three)

November 14, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ This was always going to be the leg of the journey that had the potential for being the most stressful. I had always sort of scoffed at the idea of satellite navigation in any car I owned because I always had a fairly good idea of how to get from point a […]

Tony’s Road Trip (Part Two)

November 7, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ There were two things I was going to mention in the earlier Part One post, but it was already quite long, so I’ll address them here. They both have reference to Heavy Transport, those rigs that travel the Interstate routes delivering freight. I remember them distinctly from my earlier days, back […]

Tony’s Road Trip (Part One)

November 6, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ There is some background for this road trip to Canberra that I should explain, because doing something like this at my age (and I’m now 74 years old) is perhaps something that really should not be contemplated seriously. So, this was not like I just got in the car and headed […]

Tony’s Road Trip Finished.

November 4, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ I am now back home after my road trip. I will be detailing most of it in Posts starting in a couple of days, so it might take a number of days to get it all down, but in the interim, I’ll just give a general overview of the trip itself. […]

Tony Offline For Three Days

October 30, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ I will be off line for the next three days, and back on Monday 3rd November, so there will be no Posts put up for you to read. I am currently in Canberra visiting with my Sister and family. Tomorrow (Friday) morning, I will be setting off back home. I am […]

Tony’s Road Trip – Introduction

October 22, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ By now, those dedicated readers here at our site would have noticed there has been a lack of Posts being posted on a daily basis. I’m on my own now as the Editor here, and I’m visiting my Sister in Canberra. I usually fly everywhere these days, so it’s mostly a […]

The Indian Pacific Train Journey Home – Part One (a) – Kalgoorlie

May 3, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ On the first morning after leaving Perth, we were scheduled for a very early breakfast, as we left early for the first of the off train excursions, and the tour I was on was one of four of these different excursions. This first stop was at Kalgoorlie, and that is the […]

The Indian Pacific Train Journey Home – Part Six – The Last Leg

May 1, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ After almost four hours at Broken Hill, we were back on the train in time for lunch, and then an hour or so in the Lounge car, mostly talking about that wonderful visit and the things we all saw. As I mentioned in earlier Posts, with each of these off train […]

The Indian Pacific Train Journey Home – Part Five – Broken Hill

April 27, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ After the wonderful evening at Seppeltsfield, we left Adelaide for the next stop at Broken Hill. Now they had unhooked the single locomotive at the front of the train, and hooked up two locomotives at the back of the train, as we now had to cross The Blue Mountains close to […]

The Indian Pacific Train Journey Home – Part Four – Seppeltsfield Winery

April 21, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ In the earlier Post, we had left Port Augusta, and the next stop was for the off train excursion to Seppeltsfield Winery in South Australia’s famed Barossa Valley wine region. Again, we pulled into a siding and for the three sections of accommodation on the train, we all got out using […]

The Indian Pacific Train Journey Home – Part Three

April 16, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ This is the continuation of my train journey across the Continent of Australia, from Perth to Sydney on the iconic Indian Pacific train. This Indian Pacific train trip is detailed at this link. After the off train excursion at Cook, it was another night sleeping on the train, our second night, […]

The Indian Pacific Train Journey Home – Part Two

April 15, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ This is the continuation of my train journey across the Continent of Australia, from Perth to Sydney on the iconic Indian Pacific train. The first part of this is detailed at this link. I have always been technically minded, so, here’s some technical details about the locomotive which pulled our train […]

The Indian Pacific Train Journey Home – Part One

April 13, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ Mid afternoon on my last Saturday in Perth, I rocked up to the East Perth rail terminal for my trip back East on the Indian Pacific. This is one of the World’s great train journeys, and has been in operation continuously since 1970, travelling on Standard Gauge rail lines for the […]

Tony’s Perth Visit Almost Over

April 12, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ I spent 23 days on my visit to Perth, and here I had a decided advantage over an ordinary tourist. During my visit with my sister Janis and her extended family in Perth, Western Australia, I was taken to so many places. As a tourist, now that would be nothing out […]

The Visit To Busselton Jetty

April 9, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ The first weekend I arrived in Perth, my sister Janis took me down to the property in The Ferguson Valley where David and Helen (my niece) and their family ‘run’ Black Angus cattle, bees, trees, and fruit, an amazing two and a half days, and on our way back home, Janis […]

The Visit To Cape Leeuwin Lighthouse

April 8, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ This amazing lighthouse is located on a headland near the small town of Augusta, and the lighthouse itself is at the most south westerly point on mainland Australia. It is the tallest lighthouse on mainland Australia.(Every image in this Post has been sized to best fit this viewing page. If you […]

The Visit To Kings Park Botanical Gardens – The Banksia Garden

April 7, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ I have an abiding interest in Australian Native Plants, stemming back now to the mid 1980s, and a major part of that interest is with the species of the Banksia plants. This species is endemic to Australia, and there are 76 separate plants in this genus. They were named after the […]

The Visit To The Perth Mint

April 6, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ Having visited the Royal Australian Mint a couple of times now on visits to Canberra, a visit to the Perth Mint was always going to be a part of my visit, and my sister and I spent a couple of hours here, and we both took the organised tour, which included […]

The Visit To The Pinnacles

March 25, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ The Pinnacles Again, this was another of those startling surprises which have been the feature of my visit here in ‘The West’. As with Gnomesville earlier, this was another case of don’t tell him, let him see for himself. My sister gave me a cryptic hint ….. The Glasshouse Mountains, and […]

Tony’s Continuing Visit In Perth

March 23, 2025 by TonyfromOz

By Anton Lang ~ Beaches and Sunset While I’m here in Perth, I’m staying with my sister Janis, and she has taken me around to visit the local things to see, and to all the places I have already visited, and I’m still yet to write about here. (Every image in this Post has been […]