Elspeth Callender
Travel writer
Elspeth Callender is a columnist.
Indigenous tours in Tasmania: New walking tour offers First Nations perspective on Hobart
This 90-minute experience highlights and honours the place, presence and stories of First Nations people in a city that has historically excluded them.
- by Elspeth Callender
Pinetrees Lodge at Lord Howe: More than 130 years on, Australian island hotel still shines
The Pinetrees story begins with Margaret Curry, an Irish-born housemaid, and Thomas Andrews, a fetching seaman she met on her passage to Australia in 1832.
- by Elspeth Callender
Nine must-do highlights of Lord Howe Island
Stunning Lord Howe Island is home to the world’s most southerly coral reef.
- by Elspeth Callender
Lord Howe Island travel guide and things to do: Nine highlights
Stunning Lord Howe Island is home to the world's most southerly coral reef.
- by Elspeth Callender
Dip Falls and Big Tree, Dip River Forest Reserve: Tasmania's unusual hexagonal-like natural wonder
The other side of Tasmania proves to be a whole different world.
- by Elspeth Callender
Bright, Victoria, Australia: The High Country cafe that changes lives
It serves regional, seasonal and Indigenous bush foods, and gets young Indigenous people from the Northern Territory workplace ready.
- by Elspeth Callender
Six of the best: Elevated experiences in Sri Lanka
Travel by floatplane while in Sri Lanka, especially if you're short on time.
- by Elspeth Callender
Queenstown, Tasmania: Why you should visit and five things to do
I'm ashamed to admit I lived in Tasmania for more than a decade before discovering Queenstown.
- by Elspeth Callender
Canada: Six of the best floatplane flights in British Columbia
These flights inevitably involve outrageously beautiful scenery.
- by Elspeth Callender
The raw beauty of roughing it
It might be just a camping cushion but it could mark the beginning of the end of this traveller's life in the rough.
- by Elspeth Callender
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