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The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Cape Otway from The Grampians: Photojournalist David Savage travels Australia on the OZ Experience… On The Bus… Our journey from Hall’s Gap continued through a final stretch of the Grampians, taking us closer and closer to the coast. Before reaching our first glimpse of the ‘Big Blue’, we drove into and through a huge extinct volcanic crater known as Tower [...]
The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Canberra from Gelantipiny: Photojournalist David Savage travels Australia on the OZ Experience… On The Bus… The day started by continuing our drive along a narrow dirt road that wound its way deep into the Snowy Mountains. So thin was this road that meeting an oncoming vehicle could mean reversing for a few kilometres to find a suitable passing [...]
The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Barossa Valley from Parachilna: Photojournalist David Savage travels Australia on the OZ Experience… On The Bus… In Alice Springs about a week earlier I heard about a legend. The Legend of an OZ Experience Bus gone ‘HIPPIE’, driven by Hippie Happy ‘Shell’, reputedly from the stars somewhere over New Zealand. Today I met the Legend. Stepping onto the bus [...]
The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Alice Springs from Cairns, Three Day Overland Trip: Photojournalist David Savage travels Australia on the OZ Experience… OZ Experience has a new route on offer in Australia. Cairns to Alice Springs (or vice versa), overland in three days and two nights. This route is known as the ‘Priscilla’ route and strikes deep into the outback where nowhere means nowhere and a pub is [...]
The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced: The OZ Experience Transport Network is more than just a means of travel for backpackers. It is a bus company that wants to show you the parts of Australia that make Australia a ‘fair-dinkum – dunk’em – funky – surfy – g’day – shrimp-throwing – barbie – beer-drinking – tanning – bungi – swagshagging – [...]
The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Surfer’s Paradise from Byron Bay: Photojournalist David Savage travels Australia on the OZ Experience… On the Bus… It was a short journey to Surfer’s Paradise but the Oz Bus took time to call into the Springbrook National Park so we could see the rock formation, ‘The Natural Arch’. The short walk through the forest gives you a good taste of [...]
The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Nundle from Sydney: Photojournalist David Savage travels Australia on the OZ Experience… On the Bus… The OZ Experience bus left Sydney from the legendary ‘Kings Cross’, the driver performing the obligatory engine stall two minutes into the journey. After that was out of the way the driver explained that the Kings Cross was legendary for being the main [...]
The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Noosa and Fraser Island from Surfer’s Paradise: Photojournalist David Savage travels Australia on the OZ Experience… On the Bus… Noosa is a sophisticated beach town with outstanding natural beauty, classy restaurants and desirable riverfront properties. The small town is where yuppie encounters backpacker. Noosa isn’t the cheapest of places to hangout, however the hostel prices are in line with the rest of [...]
The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Mission Beach from Magnetic Island: Photojournalist David Savage travels Australia on the OZ Experience… On the Bus… Our journey from Townsville to Mission Beach was to be a musical one with hits from ‘South Park’ and other comical tunes about police, reefers and the great Australian Mullet Haircut Bloke. Giving us a break from all that we stopped at a [...]
The Road to Becoming OZ Experienced – Magnetic Island from Airlie Beach: Photojournalist David Savage travels Australia on the OZ Experience… On the Bus… It is a short drive from Airlie Beach to Townsville where ferries regularly depart for Magnetic Island. The OZ bus doesn’t stop overnight here, instead it carries on up to Mission Beach, but not before giving passengers a three hour break to have [...]