On the occasion of World Environment Day, there are a few ways to go green and lead a healthy lifestyle without making many changes completely.
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Fresh fruits and vegetables: Eating packaged foods can hamper your health and cause serious ailments. Choose vegetables and fruits that are sold fresh off the produce and which are free of harmful chemicals.
Organic farming: Growing organic vegetables at home. If you want to grow your own vegetables at home, here are a few things you need to keep in mind. You need organic soil, organic seeds. Allow enough light and air once you sow the seeds. Don’t overwater it and ensure that rats don’t get to the small plants. You can literally enjoy the fruits and vegetables of your own labour.
What you can grow at home: The easiest to grow are the tomatoes, brinjals, beans, peas, broccoli and cauliflower, bitter gourd, snake gourd and muskmelon.
Health and nutrition– On health and nutrition front, shunning pesticides like sulfan and furadan. It is not just the farmers who suffer from the negative effects of pesticides. Many agricultural chemicals, such as endosulfan, can be found far away from the fields on which they were applied. It has been detected in homes, waterways and air long after they have been spread over croplands. Exposure to these residues increases the risks of developing many diseases, from certain forms of cancer to neurological disorders. Chemical-free farming – very much in contrast to the status quo of the Green Revolution and industrial farming is healthier for the environment and human populations.
The environment belongs to all and is important to all. Environmental issues received international attention in the Stockholm Conference on 5th June 1972. Since then we celebrate World Environment Day on 5th June.
There is a Chinese proverb
“If you plan for one year, plant rice, if you plan for 10 years, plant trees and if you plan for 100 years, educate people.
So, if we want to protect and manage our planet Earth on a sustainable basis, all of us need to be environmentally educated.
Stock up on water: On an individual level, we need to have water tanks in our house than constantly use flowing water for washing, cleaning etc. Conserve water and stop wastage of water.
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Reuse Paper: Use both sides of paper when you need print-outs. Although paper is bio-degradable, the wastage of it releases greenhouse gases like methane when being decomposed. So, reuse paper and help preserve trees and conserve nature. You and your children can create from these DIY projects. 30 Awesome DIY Projects Using Newspaper!
The Sydney Vivid festival is a fantastic way to spend a Winters evening (Ideally if it’s not raining). See Sydney’s landmarks transformed into moving images and amazing colours during the festival.
From around 6pm – 11pm each night in Late May / Early June spend a few hours strolling around Circular Quay, the botanical gardens, and Martin Place, with other displays in the Rocks and places in the CBD. The displays are amazing and very entertaining. Not forgetting it’s all absolutely Free, which is a bonus these days.
I would suggest trying to avoid the weekend evenings if possible as it’s very busy, but that’s the downside of a great event.
Vivid Sydney 2016
Vivid Sydney is an annual festival of light, music and ideas. It has become the premier winter event in the city. It is gaining a reputation for being among the world’s leading creative celebrations. This year the festival is on from 27 May – 18 June 2016.
To experience VIVID in different ways, there are events that take place every day throughout the city. The simplest way is to arrive in the city at nightfall and wander around until the installations light up your eyes. Maps are available to guide visitors through everything.
Another great way to experience it all is to book a specially created tour for the event. You can take a cruise around the Sydney Harbour and see the lights from the water, or go behind-the-scenes at the Sydney Opera House while the outside is lit up!
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Vivid Lights Sydney Harbour Cruise– This cruise around Sydney Harbour is a 1-hour evening boat excursion. The spectacular light displays of Vivid Sydney festival is an unforgettable experience as you admire the artworks that light up iconic structures including Sydney Opera House, Sydney Harbour Bridge and Circular Quay among others. Your cruise ends at Darling Harbour where you can explore more.
Darling Harbour– There are many attractions for tourists here. You can meet animals and sea life, climb aboard submarines and destroyers, see science in action, touch a giant 3D movie or a waxwork movie star, ride a carousel, catch a flying fox in the Darling Harbour Playground, roll the casino dice, pull up a deck chair on the Village Green, or escape to a blissfully tranquil garden.
9D Action Cinemas– 9D Action Cinemas brings you the latest technology in a dynamic, multi-dimensional, small theatre movie entertainment, suitable for both children and adults.
Your senses will be overwhelmed with the stimulating and exciting 3D movies with surround sound, coupled with ‘active motion’ luxury seats and dramatic effects such as rain, fog, lightning, wind, snow, touch, feel and more. You will enjoy this genuine ‘action cinema’ experience like you have never had in traditional movies. For more details, follow this link.
ADVENTURE CRUISING WITH FANTASEA
If you want to see Sydney from the water, Fantasea is the way to do it. Do follow this link for more details.
AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM
The Maritime Museum promises a great day out for the family with enthralling exhibitions and a must-see collection of vessels. For further details, please follow this link.
CHINESE GARDEN OF FRIENDSHIP
Feel the sun on your face in your own secret garden in Darling Harbour’s Chinese Garden of Friendship. The Chinese Garden is a place to escape. It recreates the philosophy of a traditional Chinese garden with waterfalls, lakes, exotic plants and hidden pathways. Chinese Garden Highlights tour.
Cockle Bay Wharf
It is located on the CBD side of Darling Harbour. Enjoy Sydney’s most stunning waterside location by taking advantage of the various dining options. A variety of restaurants and cafes with menus that will make your mouth water, fresh seafood, authentic Italian dishes, and hawker-style Malaysian cuisine, to modern Australian – each venue offers a truly unique experience.
Celebrate @RBGSydney‘s 200th Birthday as it illuminates from 6-11pm until 18 Jun. #VividSydney
All those traveling freaks, who enjoy driving to a great extent including both men and women, always have a dream of exploring the off-road place with self-drive cars like campervans and motorhomes in order to have that quintessential traveling experience. In order to go ahead with this idea , all they need to have is right companions, a beautiful DSLR camera ( both Nikon and Canon are welcomed here), a decent budget, a perfect tourist destination in mind and a passion for exploring it. If you are fully equipped with all these things, nothing can stop you from obtaining that thrilling experience.
Long stretches of sandy beaches are the kind of places wherein you can have a perfect off-road adventure, as far as driving is concerned. The world is full of amazing beaches, all you have to decide is which one to explore.
Bondi Beach Sydney Australia
However, wherever you go and whichever type of place you explore you always have to keep in consideration the safety measures in order to remain safe from a variety of dangerous things that can ruin your trip. Australia is a great place to have an experience of driving.
Tips for safe beach driving
1. Figure Out Whether Driving Is Allowed Or Not
Before you finalize your journey, you need to have an extensive knowledge about the beach that you are planning to explore on a self-drive campervan in Australia. The Internet is the best way of conducting the research as far as figuring out beach details are concerned. Once you come to know that vehicles are allowed to the beach, you then need to figure out the routes assigned to it. However, if you fail to find the access routes it is always better that you get in touch with a tourist information centre in order to get detailed information about the same. Following established access routes are not only helpful for dune ecosystem but also for your vehicle, as far as minimizing the danger is concerned.
2. Choose a Right Vehicle For This Purpose
To start with, you should figure out which vehicle is the best for exploring the beaches. The one thing that should be clear to you is you can never ever drive all types of vehicles on the sand, that means there are a few specific types of vehicles that are recommended for beach driving. Vehicles designed for an off-road adventure like campervans can offer you with a mind-blowing beach driving experience. As far as campervans are concerned, you mostly have to hire them from renowned companies that offer campervan rental services like Aussie Campervans.
There are a variety of things that you need to take care of when driving on the beach and one such thing is to lessen the load of your vehicle. A lighter vehicle is always safe to drive when it comes to hitting off-road areas like sandy beaches. So, in order to prevent your vehicle from getting bogged try to pack only essential items and unload all the unwanted items from it.
4. Get All The Information About High Tide And Low Tide
Before you begin your journey, try to collect as much information as possible about the high tide and low tide and their consequences for your journey. You must know which is the favorable time to start your adventurous beach trip. Remember, you should never begin your journey during high tide as it can pose a great threat to you.
So, one of the best times to carry out your plans of driving on the beach is during an outgoing high tide. Remember, one powerful wave is enough to ruin everything.
5. Minimize The Pressure Of Your Tyre
Lowering the tyre pressure can have huge advantages for off-road driving as it helps the tyre to spread out, thus allowing the vehicle to increase the surface area that comes in touch with the sand when it comes to obtaining better traction.
6. Pay Attention To The Momentum
Maintaining the momentum of your vehicle remains another important part of your off-road adventure in the beach. While driving on the loose sand you have to make sure that you enhance the speed of your vehicle appropriately according to the requirement. If you are driving slowly on the loose sand the chances of your vehicle sinking into it increase manifold. So if you do not want to get bogged and would like to enhance your fuel usages you must have sufficient knowledge of how to maintain the momentum of your vehicle.
7. Have a Deep Understanding Of Road Rules
Following road rules is extremely important no matter where you drive. If you are a traveler in a foreign country, wherein you are carrying out your journey through a self-drive car on the beach, you must be aware of the road rules of that country in order to avoid problems. Remember, you should never be driving the vehicle if you are drunk and make sure that everyone inside the car is wearing a seatbelt. In addition to that, remember that you never forget to follow the speed limits.
8. Don’t Forget To Maintain An Appropriate Distance From The Water
Sometimes drivers underestimate the advice and instructions offered to them by others and they willingly take weird steps such as going closer to the water with an aim of making the drive even more adventurous, but that can be dangerous. Hence, maintain a fair amount of distance from the water, while hitting the sandy beaches on your vehicle.
