It’s hard to imagine a more inhospitable place to have lived a life, as you walk across the concrete hard dirt and gibber stone cemetery, a dust storm whipped up by a hot northerly wind, drying your throat with each dust coated breath. But people did live here in the town of Farina in far […]
Bushfire Recovery – It’s Time To Go Back
Like so many folk I had great holiday plans for most of January and was looking forward to catching up with family and friends. The South Coast of NSW is my normal summer location of choice and this year was no different. However it was an earlier start this summer leaving home on Boxing Day […]
Cornish Happiness on the Copper Coast
To everyone reading this story, I say dydh da! Pronounced ‘dith da’, this means ‘hello’ in Cornish, an ancient language that is currently being revived from near extinction, in part with help from festivals such as the Kernewek Lowender, held every two years in South Australia. Meaning ‘Cornish Happiness’, the Kernewek Lowender festival does indeed […]
The Great Art Gallery
Explore the world’s largest outdoor gallery right here in Australia that stretches over 7,500 kilometres from one end to the other Western Australia The Australian Silo Art Trail all began in March 2015 when FORM, a Western Australian not-for-profit cultural organisation, decided to paint the CBH grain silos in the wheatbelt town of Northam. This […]
A Tale of Ruin at Aroona
It was late afternoon when we arrived at the Flinders Ranges National Park in northern South Australia, and our first priority was to decide where to camp for the night. The Aroona camping area, in the most northerly section of the park, was the obvious choice, and in no time at all we’d settled into […]
