As 2016 is an Olympic year, it is a good time to reflect on the obscure so-called sports that seem to serve no other purpose than to gift us with a weird surge of nationalistic pride every four years – “We won go...

The biggest challenge of surfing these days isn’t learning to stand up or getting your first barrel, it’s finding uncrowded surf breaks with fun waves. As such, surfers are forced to search far and wide, often travel...

Outercourse is a word most people have never heard of. It’s a term used for a variety of sexual experiences that don’t include intercourse or penetrative sex. There is a huge misconception by many people that...

It was a surprise to read of a big snake run over and killed recently on South Dowling Street adjacent to Moore Park. The impressive reptile was identified as a Diamond Python, the only python that occurs naturally in th...

Recently, on an Avalon river cruise along the Danube River, we stopped for one day in magnificent Vienna and what we saw is indelibly etched into our memory. It’s without a doubt one of the most beautiful cities in Eur...

As I get older, I’m proving a few clichés to be true. I’m getting smarter and wiser – on the fishing front, at least – and this is in large part due to my diary records and a keener sense of observation ...

CLOVELLY LIFEGUARDS ROCK Hey! My name is Nathan and I’m from Melbourne. My family and I drove to Sydney on December 30 for a two-week stay in the Eastern Suburbs to visit family. I was staying with friends in Bronte an...

Over the years I’ve been called a lot of things, but never has the term ‘religious’ been attributed to any part of my being. It should come as no surprise, then, that I have very little time for the fluctuating dat...