Here comes the sun
Sunrise for many people is the best time of day. When I’m travelling, I’m much more likely to be up early than I am at home,…
Butterflies flutter by in Kuranda
The caterpillar does all the work, the butterfly gets all the publicity. How true that is! This quote was pinned on the wall at the Australian…
The devil’s in the detail at Tibooburra
When Australian artist Clifton Pugh was visiting his mate Barney Davie at his outback pub in the late 1960s, he got stranded during a flood and…
Interest in industry
Life and work goes on around us as we travel. We might be on holiday but the people who live in the places we visit are…
My travel year in pictures
It’s been a crazy travel year for me. I don’t think I’ve ever been on the road so much, and while I’ve loved it, there’s got…
Missing out on the Miners Memorial
The outback New South Wales town of Broken Hill is famous for its mining history. Generations of men have toiled to bring the region’s rich lode…
Swell Sculpture Festival 2014
As if sand and sea are not enough to restore the soul at any time, each year I love to head to the Gold Coast for…
The fabulous flora and fauna of Fraser Island
Flowers, feathers and fins…I love a good bit of alliteration! Fraser Island provided all three on my recent visit, but another ‘f’ that I was hoping…
Fraser Island’s ‘beauty spots’
I may have gone to Fraser Island to go whale-watching, but there’s so much more to this wonderful place that it’s truly an any-time-of-year destination. Fraser…
Fraser Island’s fascinating shipwrecks
There’s something intriguing about shipwrecks. We are drawn to their stories, to the tragic tales of loss, the prospect of treasure… On Queensland’s Fraser Island, the…
A Glass Half Full 