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Australian travellers yearning for adventure after almost one year of international border closures can visit an extraordinary cloud forest hovering over a tiny island, without leaving New South Wales.
The rare phenomenon on Lord Howe Island, a stunning volcanic isle which lies roughly 600km east of the NSW coast, is created by a balanced ecosystem that causes clouds to float directly over mountaintops, shrouding peaks in cotton-like wisps.
The cloud caps, which hang between the 875-metre summit of Mount Gower and lower Mount Lidgbird during summer months, form when air travelling across the ocean collects invisible water vapour, which collides with the mountains it rises before cooling and condensing into clouds.
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Love and Thunder: The Hemsworths have made Lord Howe a home away from home during filming Thor. Photo / Supplied @chrishemsworth; @visitlordhoweisland
Love and Thunder: The Hemsworths have made Lord Howe a home away from home during filming Thor. Photo / Supplied @chrishemsworth; @visitlordhoweisland
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It was only a matter of time.
We knew Byron Bay had reached its peak, but there was still the question of which city Aussie beach bums would move onto and ruin next.
The possibilities were honestly overwhelming. So many iconic Australian towns to destroy!
Zoë Foster Blake is one of Australia s most successful female entrepreneurs with an estimated fortune of $36million - but she didn t always live the high-life.
The businesswoman, who lives in a $9million mansion with her family, had an alternative upbringing in the country with seven siblings before moving to Sydney and working for years as a beauty journalist to gain the tools she needed to build her skincare line.
Here, Daily Mail Australia looks at Zoë s journey to success - and how she became a multi-millionaire before the age of 40 thanks to her Go-To beauty empire.
Inside Zoë Foster Blake s rise to success: Before launching Go-To skincare in 2014, the 40-year-old businesswoman worked in journalism, which helped shape her passion for beauty
Flying in, I see it. Not the hulking green mass of Norfolk Island, which looks like a dairy farm plonked in the middle of the ocean, but its smaller sibling six kilometres to the south, a rugged, uninhabited (except by thousands of seabirds) red-earth island that s been called the Uluru of the Pacific .
It s called Phillip Island, and getting there involves a mini-expedition that starts with a short, often rough boat trip from Norfolk; you then have to leap ashore onto slippery, wave-sloshed rocks and scramble up ladders and ropes to reach the island s higher, drier slopes.
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