A while back I attended a lecture at our local library given by a diver who is involved in the search for the shell that is believed to be the first shot fired after World War One was declared. On … Continue reading Port Phillip Heads – the first shot fired in World War 1
Grenfell, NSW A short drive from Grenfell is a property known as Seaton’s Farm. This now-protected farm was established by Jim and Bertha Seaton during the Depression and shows how canny farmers had to be to survive during those tough … Continue reading Little towns with big hearts – Grenfell – Seaton’s Farm
Winter 2016 We drive into Rollingstone which is a cluster of houses engulfed by tropical gardens, a school, a police station, a pub and a general store. The store is so typical of north Queensland and famous for its ham off the bone. The front door is a roller shutter. When the store is open the shutter is up, no fly screens, just the whole shop open to the warm tropical breeze. It sells everything, fuel, groceries, souvenirs, has a post office agency and even sells chunks of coral for six bucks. Which I might add, anyone can pick up … Continue reading Rollingstone General Store
Museums and tours are never a waste of money and sometimes, small out of the way museums have a better handle on curation than the big ones. The subject matter just grabs you and sucks you into a topic you … Continue reading Museums and Tours – Mallacoota
Day 10 Saturday 5/6/21 Lake Cargelligo to Trundle, 1-14 icy then warm in the sun An icy morning. Woody goes over for a shower, forgets his undies and reckons that the shower was hot by the time he got back! … Continue reading Capricorn Dancers, Day 10 – Just trundling
Feb 2020, Glenaire, Vic Castle Cove Beach is on the Great Ocean Road between Apollo Bay and Lavers Hill. While the beach is wild and beautiful the rolling hills of the farmlands behind also hold an attraction. Continue reading Castle Cove Beach
Feb 2020, Otway Ranges, Vic A few minutes down a short well-made dirt road from the Otway Fly is the picnic and parking area of Triplet Falls. It can’t be all that far because Outback Jack (Woody) didn’t start complaining … Continue reading Triplet Falls
Feb 2020, Otway Ranges, Vic A short drive from Lavers Hill on the Great Ocean Road, you’ll find the Otway Fly set in the rainforests of the Otway Ranges. We old buggers give the flying fox experience a miss but gallop off to the walkways suspended above the forest. We probably walk several kilometres in all and climb the tower just to say that we still can. The tower appears to be swaying slightly in the breeze or is that the gums trees moving. Hang on we’re just giddy from the climb. Luckily, we have a botanist in our group … Continue reading Sex in the Sea and the Otway Ranges
Feb 2020, Apollo Bay, Vic A short drive along the Barham River flats behind Apollo Bay brings us to Paradise and a walk through the tree ferns to the river. It’s cool, damp and mossy with ferns growing on more … Continue reading I’ve been to Paradise…
Goulburn, NSW English tradition decreed that only cities were to have cathedrals. When the good folk of the rapidly growing and prosperous town of Goulburn built St Saviour’s Cathedral, Queen Victoria was forced to declare Goulburn a city! Continue reading I dub thee
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