Great Barrier Reef: Fun Facts
October 30, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue
By the time you are reading this we’ll be hovering in the liquid blue over the Great Barrier Reef. This is a bucket list item for us. We’ve planned it […]
Monthly Archives: October 2013
Campsite Review: Tanunda Caravan & Tourist Park
October 26, 2013 in Inspiration
The Barossa Valley in late spring is a little slice of heaven. Fields of winter wheat ripening towards gold. Acre up on acre of vineyard unfurling new leaves and stretching […]
An Outback Night
October 26, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue
sunburnt earth. mirage. nuanced landscape, subtle change, ubiquitous flies (We have kind of a thing for haiku… I wrote this one between Richmond and Hughendon on the long flat. There’s […]
Leaving Alice Springs
October 25, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue
We did not expect to find Alice Springs surrounded by hills. For a thousand kilometers in every direction the Red Center of Australia stretches in a rarely interrupted, pancake flat […]
Uluru: A photo essay
October 23, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue
Last post I tried words… but really, pictures are better:
Uluru: a pebble in your hand
October 22, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue
Imagine a pebble in your hand. Make it a piece of sandstone. Roll it around in your mind’s eye. One solid piece of rock formed over millions of years from […]
“The Opal Fairy” A poem for Hannah
October 20, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue
We meet the most fabulous people as we travel (Have I said that before?!) Hannah took a little tumble in Coober Pedy, if you remember. We were lucky enough to […]
There’s nothing in the red center of Australia
October 19, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue
There’s nothing in the red center of Australia. If by nothing you mean echos of endless wide spaces and wide sky that holds the world together like an eternal ribbon […]
Outback Adventures: Stranded & Stitches
October 16, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue
The night is quiet. Last week the nights were filled with insect and frog song, in wetter, greener places. Tonight the only sound is the quiet hiss of the gas […]
Coober Pedy: Outback, opals & a didgiridoo
October 15, 2013 in Australia, Oceania, Travelogue
Coober Pedy reminds us a bit of Matmata, Tunisia. The underground homes carved deep into the arid, barren landscape are similar; the only thing missing are the berber ladies grilling […]
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