Your schedule too tight to take in scuba diving and skydiving this weekend? Why not try both at once? That is the subject of one of the entries in the ‘One Day in Paradise’ film festival promoting Tropical North Queensland, launched on May 15. Experienced filmmakers such as 2013 Tropfest Winner Nicholas Clifford are among the 20 contestants involved in the $75,000-first-prize competition. All the two-minute films from the Youtube-based festival had to be made using wearable GoPro cameras. The flying frogman, Gold Coast stuntman Gulliver Page, pictured, warned that scuba-sky diving isn’t just your run-of-the-mill weekend activity. “Jumping out...

Sunny Gajjar loves photography and motorcycling so much he will be spending two months riding 23,000km of Australia’s most picturesque roads happily snapping away. The 32-year-old from New Delhi, India, has ridden around Australia before and estimates that he has clocked up close to 350,000km in 15 other countries pandering to his two great loves. In 2007  the self-proclaimed 'MotoGrapher' rode 22,000km around Australia with another rider from India, but this time around he is solo on his trusty 1200cc Ducati Multistrada, after commencing his journey in Sydney on April 22. Sunny is enamoured by the photographic opportunities and solitude that...

If anyone could predict snow, that fickle thing, they’d make a million dollars. All sorts of weather indicators for snow exist (‘it is raining and 13 degrees in Adelaide’ is a popular one), but for something more scientific, Pete ‘The Frog’ Taylor of snowatch.com.au has long been the Oracle for long-range snow forecasts for keen powder hounds. He says ocean temperatures around Australia have been warmer than average this year, which could result in increased regional rainfall. That’s not good news for establishing a snow base pre-season – but never fear, there will be falls. “Warm nights during May could...