Canberra – memories and politics
Driving into our nation's capital is a humbling experience. Be it from the imposing stature of Parliament House; the marble, the concrete, the grass, the steel. Or is the humbling…
Driving to Bathurst ;-)
Parkes Parkes do telescopes well. They also do carrot cake and coffee very well at the café. Mice are everywhere at the moment, we are told the farmers are in…
Colour – life in death in life
Colours; none bright, none psychedelic, all calming. Soothing scenes with remnants of fierce days not long passed. The 2019/2020 bushfires. Blackened bark, ash littering the rocky plainlands. Dry rocks, dry…
Look after our Zoo
Bad stuff then the good stuff..... Bad StuffWe had a very informative day yesterday finding out about all the animals. It is incredible to learn about them and appreciate the…
Lion Male
Dubbo Zoo
A Day at the Zoo What a day we had at the zoo,A chance to see the wild up close.What a day to reconnect,With nature’s wonders, vast and grand. From…
Warrumbungle NP Take 2
Remember those shots from yesterday. They looked so far away, so steep, so jagged, so tall, so mountainous. I can concur...all of the previously mentioned adjectives. All of those lovely…
Warrumbungles NP
That's a big name. It suits, cause it's a big park. Interesting this one. It is very uppy and downie. The volcanic action that created it lasted over four million…
Space
How cool is space. You can't tell me that you haven't looked up at night and wondered. Out here in 'big sky country' the nightly show of galaxies, Milky Way…
Cute but…..
Bald Rock-Tenterfield area Bald Rock National Park is a short drive from Tenterfield and the walks are well-graded and easy. We met a bouncy five year old girl through to…
Agnes Waters
Surfing, longboard competitions, pizza, paperbark board walks, yoga, beach walks, lookouts, 1770, history, and beach swimming. That just about sums up our couple of days at Agnes Waters. We landed…
Carnarvon Gorge, more like CarnGorgeous
We have seen much of Queensland from the 20 odd years of driving from Cairns to Brisbane. Both the coast roads and inland ones have been fairly well explored. One…
Doin’ a lap
We have been a little quiet of late. Some changes to our plans were made due to instability of travel. So ... we took the plunge, went back to Cairns,…