Esperance is 720 kilometres south-east of Perth.

The town is primarily a port and and a beach resort.

Isolated, unconnected to the electric grid and in the roaring 40s makes it ideal for commerical wind farms.

The Americas Cup winning yacht, Australia II, is housed in the Western Australian Maritime Museum.

It is located in Fremantle, near the train station.

Other exhibits include a section on 15th century maritime Indian Ocean history, the Megamouth shark and an external submarine.

Kangaroo Island, south of Adelaide, is Australia's third largest island in area is populated with 4350 people.

Connected to mainland South Australia by ferry it is best explored by car.

Cape du Couedic Light -house, built between 1906-1909, is located in the south west of the island.

Sparsely populated, the Eyre Peninsula, west of Adelaide, South Australia, has an economy in fishing, farming and tourism.

Inselbergs, a rocky granite outcrop are a common geological feature in the northern part of Eyre.

Kimba is home to the world's largest galah.

Luang Prabang on the Mekong River is the ancient capitial of Laos and a UNESCO site.

The most adventurous way to travel there is by boat from Vietianne or Chiang Klong, Thailand.

Along Sisavangvong Rd is French architecture and several wats.

Travelling from Chiang Klong to Luang Prabang by the long slow boat was a pleasant two day journey.

Starting at Huay Xai, the boat travelled to Pak Beng on the first day. Overnight was spent there in a guest house.

The boat left Pak Beng between 8am-10am and arrived at Luang Prabang at sunset.

Wat Doi Supthep is located on a heavily forested mount 1000m above Chiangmai.

Inside is a 15m high golden chedi surrounded by a square fence made from spear shaped posts representing chedi guards.

Outside the court yard is an observation deck over -looking Chiangmai.

Every year in the first full moon of November the Loy Krathong festival is celebrated in Thailand.

A krathong is a small raft made from banana tree bark, folded banana leaves, decorated with flowers, candles and incense.

The first krathong placed by Noppomo so touched the King he declared it an annual event.

Located off the Queensland coast is Fraser Island or K'gali (Gods of Paradise).

One hundred and twenty kilometres long and with an area of 180,000 hectares it is composed of sand.

Covered with rain forests it has many lakes including the popular window lake, Lake Mackenzie.

Cradle Mountain is in Central Tasmania.

A popular and strenuous day trek is climbing to the Cradle Mountain summit. Most day treks start at the Boat Hut on Dove Lake.

Many of the flora species in the Cradle Mountain park, such as King Billy Pine and fagus are endemic to Tasmania.

Lake Margaret, built during World War I, is a small hydroelectricity plant in the west coast of Tasmania.

A group of us climbed up the scarp and followed the leaky wooden pipeline to the dam.