Uralla & Walcha
I intended to discover Walcha and Uralla on my trip back from Sydney when I bought the car back in September ’09 – I was looking forward to it – but I got lost, broke the car, got stranded for 6 days……and didn’t get there. On the road again – another adventure – I am…
Read MorePoppys Cottage
6 km out of Armidale, down a dirt lane, over a grid and up a long driveway scattered with cattle, to a country homestead with ‘Poppy’s Cottage’ in the back yard. WOW! Just my style – tiny old cute cosy, surrounded by a beautiful country garden, ducks, cows, barn, friendly farm dogs, the cat…so homely!…
Read MoreCathedral Rock
Monday morning 17th May, the car packed up, one last breaky at my favourite ‘Tuckshop’ cafe, and I was on my way to Armidale – finally. The trip is just 150km or so but as usual it took all day. Cathedral Rock was my first stop and I was a bit hesitant to do the 5.8km…
Read MoreBye Bye Bello
Images from the last 3 months of hanging out in Bellingen
Read MoreGoodbye to Bellingen and 42 Coronation Street.
What can I say – it’s been great, but it is time to go……..gotta keep moving……..packed up this weekend, car is loaded to the hilt – ready for Monday morning. John is moving out too so the house is all packed up – the organic, biodynamic garden was one thing, the 1970’s original condition house…
Read MoreLast trip back to Bello
After flying back into the Gold Coast from Townsville, catching up with friends up on Tamborine, and a few days at the farm sorting out the cottage, I grabbed my map to see if there were any roads left untravelled between Queensland and Bellingen….. found a couple so I headed off… From the farm –…
Read MoreBreakfast with new friends
Two well known residents of the the All Seasons Resort chose to hang out with me on Friday morning. A bit cheeky, but very entertaining, we even had a ‘tiff’ – he bit me and I smacked him back on the beak!
Read MoreJazza
Hot humid weather encourages you to do not a lot……very relaxing, but a whole week on a tropical resort island would be wasted without an adventure on the sea. Josephine and I took the day to discover the Island from the outside. I didn’t think about whether it would be choppy or not – and…
Read MoreThe Upmarket Side
I noticed a lot of the untidy stuff on the Island at first, but it’s not all like that – I think I was just a bit surprised…..here are some of the beautiful homes that I could see, and there are a few stunners that I could not get close to that just hang over…
Read MoreWildlife Photographer
Kites – Brahmini Kites with the white chest and head and rich brown wings, and Whistling Kites with the textured dark brown feathers. Each day at 5:30 Peter would hand feed the kookaburras and kites at the Terrace. Over the days it became the goal to ‘get the shot’. I laughed a lot as I…
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