The "Land of Oz" and a Plethora of Rail Gauges There's a song that says the "Land of Oz is a very funny place..." and some people like to call Australia the "Land of Oz". Its true that, back in the 1960's when I first went there, it seemed a funny place indeed. Instead of nickels ...
Back in the years after the Second World War it was legal and arguably necessary to cull the large and dangerous salt water crocodiles in Australia's north. Salt water crocodiles kill people from time to time even nowadays in northern Australia. The culling eventually brought salt water crocodile numbers down so low that some believed ...
Growing up in London, England, during the fifties and early sixties; and coming from a family for whom money was stretched pretty tight, my Dad used to find low cost outings to keep my younger brother and I entertained out of the house. One common and easy to accomplish excursion was to go into London ...