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If the getting there summed up the stay then Carnarvon would be a nightmare for me. Fortunately, there is not direct causal impact. After a week in Perth to celebrate birthdays with Ethan, Thali, Jenni, Georg and Jenna I was due to fly to Carnarvon on the Sunday. We took off but turned back aroundContinue reading “The Gascoyne – Harsh Above the Ground, Beauty Below It”

When I was a child in primary school I loved the comics of Jolliffe and his Outback Australia comic books. And it was in one of these books that I first heard of the Ord River Scheme in far north Western Australia and a love affair of this scheme developed (more of this later). SoContinue reading “Kununurra – If Only The Plans Worked”

I have finally had the chance to live west of the divide if only for 3 weeks. I must admit that I was really looking forward to this stay. I have always had a fascination and love with rural Australia but the furthest west in NSW that I have been is Dubbo pretty much. So,Continue reading “Forbes 2025 – Central West? Tablelands?”

Three weeks in Sale was my next stop. Set in the Gippsland of Victoria I knew very little about it before I got there and have a lot more to learn. But what I did learn was that the area is beautiful. The landscape is incredible – vast, vast stretches of water in lakes, long,Continue reading “The Gippsland – Surprisingly Surprised”

After returning from Jabiru I had the good fortune to pick up a full time client who wanted me to attend the office. While this was great for my newly formed business it did mean that I could not join Al up in the North of Queensland and Northern Territory. As it turned out itContinue reading “Crescent Head – The Creek, the Pandanus and the Linear Waves”

So that’s the end of my 3 months of travel to England, Europe and Africa (oh, and Singapore). And needless to say I had a ball. There were moments it was a bit hard and not so good but I think when you sum up an event like this you not so much forget theContinue reading “The Highlights”

So that was the end of my mini European holiday but I had 1.5 weeks in England before heading home. In that time I did spend a few days on the Isle Of Wight which turned out to be quite interesting. It’s a bigger island than I originally thought and there is a lot toContinue reading “Isle Of Wight: The Island off an Island”

The final leg of the tour was highlighted by a walk through the ruins of Ephesus but also included a visit to the house and place of death of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus. Needless to say it was wall to wall South American, Philipines, Eastern European catholics there to pay homage to theirContinue reading “Turkey part 4: Walking in their footsteps”

TROY & PERGAMON Next morning I was picked up again by a different bus and different travellers but fortunately there was one familiar face – our guide Burak. Just to prove that yesterday was not just a flash in the pan he gave us a thorough insight into the many layers of ruins in Troy.Continue reading “Turkey part 3: Troy & Pergamon – The Hollow Horse and Where Satan Lives”