South Australia Travel Guide
5/12/2008 at 9:30 AM
Tags: Big Things, Australia Travel (all tags)
If you travel around Australia and order an orange juice on the way, the chances are good that at some stage you'll be drinking Berri. This famous brand of juice is backed up by one of those ridiculously over-sized food sculptures the Aussies are renowned for: That's right, near the town of Berri, you can visit the Big Orange.
That is, you can at the moment. But the Big Orange, one of Australia's most recognized big things, is under threat. Apparently numerous owners in the past decades have struggled to attract enough visitors to the South Australian town to make running the Big Orange worthwhile; the current owner is thinking of selling.
There are a few ideas in the pipeline: There's one potential buyer who's considering moving the Big Orange to a more profitable site. Perhaps even a Jaunted reader with a spare A$100,000 (that's less than $95,000) could be the new owner of the Big Orange? You'd have to be ripe for a few juicy jokes though.
Related Stories:
· Big Orange May Find New Home [ABC]
· Big Banana Just Got Bigger [Jaunted]
· Koalas--Scary When Big [Jaunted]
[Photo: joshnunn]
by amandak
4/25/2008 at 9:35 AM
Tags: Virgin Galactic, Richard Branson, Space Travel, Space Tourism, Australia Travel (all tags)
Got your spaceflight booked yet with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic? They're still saying the first space tourist flights should take off next year at a cost of $200,000--or two million frequent flier points.
Initially, the suborbital space flights will blast off from the Californian desert, but if the government of South Australia has any say in it, that might change. The SA Tourist Commissioner has suggested to Branson that the vast nothingness that makes up much of the south-central Australian state would be the perfect launching pad for Virgin Galactic flights.
If Branson considers all those nasty nuclear tests that happened in the area in the 60s, he might be able to increase his profit line by not even taking off--some of that desert probably looks just like outer space already.
Related Stories:
· South Australia Wants Space Tourists [ABC]
· Virgin Galactic Unveils Space Ship Two [Jaunted]
· Virgin's Free Space Flight [Jaunted]
[Photo: wouter!]
by amandak
3/04/2008 at 9:11 AM
Tags: Green Travel, Buses, Australia Travel (all tags)
What's cute, green and loves the sun? You probably won't guess that it's Tindo, the world's first fully solar-powered bus which has just started operating in Adelaide, South Australia.
The name Tindo comes from a local Aboriginal word meaning "sun," fairly appropriately as the electric bus gets it energy from solar panels on the roof of the bus station. It takes something like three hours to charge, but fully-powered the bus can travel about 200km (125 miles).
If you want a ride on Tindo, it won't cost you anything all--apart from the fare to fly to Australia, if you're not already there. The bus belongs to the Adelaide Connector bus fleet which provides free shuttle services between the city center and North Adelaide. Apparently the Tindo runs really quietly, but we think it looks so much like a green tree frog that we expect to hear a croak.
Related Stories:
· Richard Branson Flies Around on Coconuts [Jaunted]
· Green Travel coverage [Jaunted]
[Photo: MM_Anadamon]
by amandak
5/04/2007 at 9:30 AM
Tags: Adventure Travel, Mancations, Sharks, Diving (all tags)
As it turns out, San Francisco isn't the only place offering shark tours. Calypso Star Charter out of Port Lincoln, Australia, offers one- and multi-day cage-diving-with-great-whites trips to the Neptune Islands--where Wikipedia says Spielberg filmed part of Jaws. Yikes.
After a two-and-a-half hour boat ride to the islands, you'll jump into a cage before being lowered to your doom see the sharks. With visibility around 60 feet, you'll want to take along a waterproof camera to snap some super-clear underwater shots. The one-day trip--which costs $310--takes about eight hours, so you'll be back in time to tell your harrowing tales of the deep at the bars in Port Lincoln.
[Photo: Jared Kelly]
Related Stories:
· Calypso Star Charter [Official Site]
· San Francisco Shark Tours [Jaunted]
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