Editor’s letter

I KNOW THE STEREOTYPES that go along with working for a travel magazine; upon hearing what we do, people instantly assume that our day to day consists of nothing more than reclining in business class and staying in five-star hotels. Far be it is anything but a complete blast, but we do often go above and beyond in our pursuit of a story. That’s how our intrepid digital editor Steve Madgwick ended up standing in a council garbage dump on a muggy Queensland afternoon in pursuit of the majestic yet annoyingly elusive cassowary (, page 112) and why our deputy editor Daniel Down reached some approximation of nirvana while hurtling down a perilous slope in the wilds of Tasmania (, page 124).