Just a few hours’ drive from Melbourne, the Tarra Bulga National Park and Tarra Valley provide a beautiful location for a soft, dirt road, weekend escape.. The rain was barely holding off and the wind was brisk as we ate lunch in the Tarra Bulga NP Visitor Centre picnic area then with lunch powering the […]
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 […]
The Wild Side of the City
The mirrored surface of the black water shimmered almost imperceptibly as a bunyip raised its scaly head through the congestion of waterlily leaves. If such a creature existed, the shaded lagoons of the Tondoon Botanic Gardens, on the western outskirts of the Queensland city of Gladstone, would undoubtedly be its chosen habitat, but the mythical […]
Canning Stock Route, Well Done
A track 1850 kilometres long that runs from Halls Creek in the Kimberley region of WA to Wiluna in the mid-west Carrying a double action revolver on the Canning Stock Route to intimidate is not highly recommended. Actually it’d be somewhat frowned upon today if you did, but for Len Hill, an innocent adventurous eighteen […]
Axeman Ready
The Australian Axeman’s Hall of Fame “Axemen, stand by your logs!” A hush falls over the crowd of spectators as six men stride to their places for the final of the Standing Block – lengths of hardwood, about a metre long and 375mm thick, clamped vertically on metal stands. Each man is clad in cream […]