“Blue Waterholes is very pretty in the right light” “We dined on Peking Duck, gourmet meals having become passé” “I was agog at the number of holidayers camped along Blowering Dam foreshore” Dead Horse, dead trees, dead rocks, was there anything to savour? It was time […]
Birthday Surprise
“… and mingled with ladies carrying knives…” “…. Rainbows have nothing on the variety of hues on display here..” We’d left the Flinders, tasted the Clare Valley and were heading east. We passed through Springton and stopped to visit the Herbig Tree where once, over 150 years ago, a German set up house and started […]
Once Upon A Time Up There
A journey through the Snowys… All along the Illawong.. Today the wind was almost mild by Snowy Mountains’ standards, just below gale force as it sent Lorraine’s hair in untold varieties of patterns before she succumbed to a beanie which relieved her discomfort a little. It’s the kind of wind that makes you turn away […]
One Step At A Time
On the very first trip soon after we met, Lorraine and I did an overnight stay at Station Creek in Yuraygir NP. The weather had been made-to-order perfect and we’d felt the sand between our toes as we strolled along beside a glassy surf caressed by an offshore breeze. On high, cirrus clouds rode the […]