Cassowary Crossing

CASSOWARY CROSSING – both the guide book and this website – celebrates the strange and surreal sites and stories you can encounter around Australia.

Check the extract section and you’ll catch the drift. The book - published by Penguin, 2005 - is an off-radar directory to places most tourists miss: teeth museums, floating islands, two-storey beehives, lucky pig statues and a thousand more.

As well, you’ll find more Suggestions right here. If you’d like to file your own, just add a Comment to any posting and we’ll run it for fellow maverick travelers.

A second page, Corrections, deals directly with the book. For readers it’s a chance to check out what changes have come since publication. Or maybe add your own. Just file a Comment anywhere on-site and we’ll put it out there.

While the blog tries to verify all snippets, nobody under the sun can promise a koala hospital will still be a koala hospital by the time you get there in person, assuming the joint is still open Sundays.

Driving your mouse, you’ll also meet other surprises, namely Offbeat Beat (a monthly travel column) and Bird Brain (a weekly word puzzle).

There’s also a grab-bag of my other stories (in the Freelance pages) that have run in Sunday Life and other sources.

Enough already. In cassowary-speak - gnunk, gnunk. Or welcome.