Travel Oz

In this Travel Oz, King Island is featured, an island at the western entrance to Bass Straight, halfway between Tasmania and Victoria. This is an island full of the friendliest folk where kelp is Harvested, cows milked and superb cheeses created. In the Blue Mountains, climbing legend Lincoln Hall takes to the cliffs once again after his near-death experience on Mount Everest.

In this special Travel Oz, we feature the Wildlife Islands of Australia, Many are wildlife havens, creatures ranging from penguins to seals, from kangaroos and dingoes to koalas. From Macquarie Island and Kangaroo Island to the Cocos Keeling Islands in the Indian Ocean.

This Travel Oz features a superb collection of Australia's finest historic aircraft being flown in a day-long performance known as Wing Over Illawarra. Walking to the Twelve Apostles, the Two Tims use their four feet, and all twenty fingers to count how many Apostles remain standing. And swimming with the humpbacks at a place the local aborigines call the Land of Many waters.

We features the district known as the food basket of New South Wales, around Orange - from paddock to plate, with crops such as cherries, apples and plums being picked, along with the venison, sheep and cattle. The pickers, the chefs, the shoppers, the diners, on the food trail around Orange. Western Australia puts on a show during its wildflower season, with reporter Dr Sally Grainger.

Some of Australia's most loved festivals. Music plays such a big role in the Australian pysche. We'll take in the Atmosphere at Festivals from Apollo Bay to Tamworth. We'll celebrate our culture in performances from outback Queensland to Sydney. We'll take in the four seasons, with shows as widespread as Canberra to Katoomba. And we'll enjoy the bizarre from buskers in Coffs.

In this Travel Oz, the bushrangers the Clarke Brothers, John and Tom, terrorized the South Coast of New South Wales, including around the Goldrush town of Mogo. Also, Dr. Sally Grainger explores a very green property in outback Western Australia complete with some Joey's. One of Australia's most productive fruit bowls, the wine growing district of Griffith explore orange sculptures

In this Travel Oz, it's the day to celebrate being an Australian, Australia Day. Celebrations are held in the Nations capital for the naming of the Australian of the Year, the raising of the flag ceremony and a citizenship ceremony. The Two Tims experience hot air balloons, quad bikes and travel past the Atherton Tablelands and deep into the arid Aussie Outback and Savannah land.

In this Travel Oz a very different way to see Tasmania's isolated and stunningly beautiful wild west coast where the first white settlers here were convicts to fell Huon Pine Trees. A mountain to rival Uluru in Western Australia, Dr Sally Grainger takes us to Mount Augustus. And the date farmer of outback Queensland, mounds of mud, an-all Aussie beauty treatment.

In this Travel Oz, Explore the Tasmania Wilderness region. It was a visionary Austrian man one hundred years ago who loved this vista so much he dedicated his life to preserving it. Gustan Weindorfer's efforts meant that Cradle Mountain here, and Dove Lake, have been world heritage listed and protected. Coming up, The Cradle Mountain wilderness wildlife encounters, kayak adventures.

In this Travel Oz the carers the scarers and the catchers seek out Aussie icons in the snow and on the beaches and track creatures from Kakadu to Australia's sub Antarctic. We will join a group of people across Australia, who are having some amazing encounters with wildlife, as we are about to experience in this special wildlife episode of Travel Oz.

In this program of Travel Oz, the west coast of Tasmania. It is indeed a wet and wild place, with an historic steam train crossing the rugged ranges from the mining town of Queenstown to the coast. From the western wilderness of Tasmania to the sleepy fishing village of Strahan, a base for timber men seeking precious Huon Pine Trees. Dr Sally Grainger shows us the famous friendly dolphins of Monke

In this program of Travel Oz, the impressive mighty Murray River, the river that begins in the foothills of the Australian Alps, flows into the waters of Lake Hume and then flows 2-thousand two hundred kilometers to the South Australian Coast. The Murray River, home to millions of water birds, a place of recreation for so many sports lovers and the lifeblood for so many farmers.

In this program of Travel Oz, Australians and their passion for sport. They love to watch it, they love even more to take part in it. Travel Oz relives some of Australia's iconic and unusual sporting moments. Australia's wide-open spaces and warm sunny weather have encouraged Australians to get out and experience a multitude of sporting activities.

In this program of Travel Oz, CRAVE. This Begins with a fiesta at Darling Harbour where South American groups perform over three days, with acts like this sultry Argentinean dance known as the Zamba and the native South American classic, the Malambo. One very big aspect of CRAVE is its celebration of FOOD: Dr Sally Grainger has taken on this most mouth-watering assignment.

This program of Travel Oz features an outback Queensland sheep property fed by the red hot waters of the Great Artesian Basin and run single handedly by a grandmother of four. Further north, the Two Tims take us mud crabbing the indigenous way. There's the remarkable story of a man who has just trekked, cycled and kayaked 12-and a half thousand kilometers right around Australia.

In this program of Travel Oz, encounters with marine creatures across Australia. On the Great Barrier Reef, Swim with turtles, and whales and their calves. We'll have a series of encounters with sharks, of all dispositions including coming ever so close to whale sharks And interact with dolphins and dugongs and enjoy the thrilling acrobatics of playful seals.

Join the men and women of the opal fields of Yowah in Queensland as they live the opal dream. Dr Sally Grainger joins fishermen and kite surfers in Geraldton WA, a little coastal fishing town that has one of the biggest rock lobster industries in the world. And from Cooktown in Far North Queensland, the Two Tims take us on an indigenous tour with a difference.

Travel Oz follows the highly endangered Bilby story, from a captive breeding program to a release. Also, join 75-thousand runners, amongst them our Two Tims, as they take part in the world's biggest fun run from the centre of Sydney to Bondi Beach. And we'll explore Canberra by bike: The new national portrait gallery, the new Stromlo sporting complex... and nature at its finest.

The Great Barrier Reef...underwater and above the waves. With global warming, the magnificent corals and bountiful sea creatures are under a very real threat. On Heron Island, with its corals, giant manta rays, and beautiful turtles, researchers warn that with rising sea levels over the next century this island could disappear. We'll follow researchers as they study coral growth

In this program of Travel Oz, we meet the camel man of outback Australia, Afghan Willie, a hardy character who uses a camel train to explore much of Australia. In Western Australia, Dr Sally Grainger explores the extraordinary Pinnacles Desert, thousands of tall limestone pillars which emerge from the sand: and in Bundaberg Queensland, we fly on a stunt plane and visit a museum.

This Travel Oz features the Boondooma Balladeers and Heritage Muster, a 5 day gathering of bush balladeers, musicians and poets, in a festival known appropriately as, the "spirit of the bush". The Two Tims take us to the Blue Mountains for a winter magic festival. Then celebrations to mark the discovery of Australia by white settlers. Travel to the Town of 1770 in Queensland.

Stories of hope and renewal in Victoria's fire ravaged tourism industry, as Travel Oz takes you from Fires to Fireworks. In the wake of the devastation of the Black Saturday bushfires of 2009, Travel Oz follows survivors like 11-year old Meg Freudenstein - the lavender girl, honey gatherers Jodie and Steve Goldsworthy, Sculptor Bruno Torfs, Trout farmer Glen Dovaston and adventurers Steve Baird.