After five weeks in Liston it’s time for a road trip south. We’re on a quest, not for the holy grail, but for something far more enticing – cool air, sea breezes, ocean. And home. Despite the almost overwhelming urge to reach the destination, I’m also planning to enjoy the journey: to differentiate landscapes, to […]
Animals on bikes
Between Yeoval and Cumnock in the central west of NSW the locals have been having fun, providing dangerous distractions on a road which doesn’t allow much opportunity to pull off. We first noticed bikes suspended high in trees years ago – this stretch is part of our backroading to get to Queensland with a minimum […]
Eurobodalla beaches: Lilli Pilli
The strip of coastline between Moruya and Batemans Bay is rich in beaches I’ve never visited. I had wide choice on Sunday afternoon and I chose to drive along Lilli Pilli Drive to the beginning of a dirt road where there was an easy track down to the beach, the steep bit taken care of […]
Walking around home: February 2019
I: Potato Point beach So long! So long it’s been since a reasonable, pleasurable walk. At last, in the cool air of a late summer morning, I hauled myself, no longer reluctant, out for a hill-and-flower walk, which turned into a beach-and-sky-and-rockpool walk along my neglected home beach. II: Moruya – a walk by an […]
Protected: What’s it like, this place
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In search of a reverse vending machine
We’ve generated a fair number of empty cans and bottles over the last few weeks, so I thought. I drove 80 kilometres to the nearest reverse vending machine, at Tenterfield. And I scored $6! I was a bit mystified by the amount of early morning traffic in town, until I realised I’d crossed the border […]
Protected: Warwick art gallery
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