Tusky Taxidermy
Perhaps not ‘Signs of Life’ but ‘Signs of death” we spotted this notice in a butcher shop window in Hillston, NSW. The sign says it all. Advertisements Continue reading Tusky Taxidermy
Category: NSW
Foggy Sunrise Lake Wyangan
The Southern Bell Frog
Balranald in southern New South Wales is home to the Southern Bell frog and this little guy is celebrated throughout the town with cute frog statues. This one at the RSL (for returned service men and women) Club caught my eye. Continue reading The Southern Bell Frog
You know you’re in the bush when…
In Lightning Ridge we take orders for fish & chips only to find out that they’re out of fish! No Saturday papers until noon, “the truck’s only just left Walgett.” Continue reading You know you’re in the bush when…
Moama Waters Holiday Park
The twin township of Echuca / Moama is a Murray River playground. Providing everything that one would need. Is it any wonder that the population of the area is growing. Moama Waters Holiday Park is about 4 kms from the … Continue reading Moama Waters Holiday Park
Wellington Beach
Wellington Beach, Nambucca Heads, NSW is flanked by the rocky breakwater and imposing Wellington Rock. After wild weather the beach is awash with driftwood and every day there is more. Piled up twigs, branches, palm fronds and tree trunks, their root systems scoured clean and smooth. Continue reading Wellington Beach
The Cornish Miners
It is said that the old Cornish miners of Broken Hill used to sleep sitting up, because their lungs were too damaged by lead and dust to allow them to sleep horizontally. They had traipsed up from South Australia, with their worldly goods in their wheelbarrows, after the copper ran out at Burra in the early 1880’s. Can you imagine how it must have felt pushing a wheelbarrow 350kms across semi arid land? Continue reading The Cornish Miners
Droving, a time honoured tradition
Occasionally we come across a drover moving cattle like this chap and his team on the Newell Highway in New South Wales. Continue reading Droving, a time honoured tradition
Life Saving Drones
I’m constantly surprised at things we see and do and just stumble upon when ‘on the road’. Ballina, NSW Winter 2017 I go for a beach walk and chance upon two guys testing ‘drone flight shark spotting’. There have been … Continue reading Life Saving Drones
World War One Skirmish at Home
White Rocks Reserve in Broken Hill, NSW is the site of the only bloodshed on Australian soil in World War One. This happened when two ‘Turks’ (actually Pakistanis, but Turkish sympathisers), one an ice cream vendor the other a butcher, attacked the Silverton train as it passed, the train was full of miners heading to Silverton for a picnic. Four locals and the ‘Turks’ were killed in the resulting skirmish. A replica ice cream cart is on display at White Rocks Reserve. Continue reading World War One Skirmish at Home
