Roaring Meg Falls and Pieter Botte
Bloomfield to Cape Tribulation via Roaring Meg Falls and Pieter Botte I recently realised that this 3-4 day walk is one which deserves to be recorded although it is definitely […]
Losing the car
I’d often thought about visiting Blackbraes National park 180 km north of Hughenden. The area is always hot and uncomfortable, and I’ve always been on the way to somewhere else […]
Building a Fruit Farm
A History of Cape Trib Exotic Fruit Farm 1987 – 2014 Buying the Land We had visited Cape Trib in 1985 on our way to teach in the NT, and […]
Outback teachers
Epenarra school 1986 -1988 This is the long version of Alison and Digby’s story of their time going to live and teach in a remote cattle station school in the […]
Building the Muddie
While not exactly a travel story, this is the adventure of building our first home. This coming decade, the 20’s, are going to see a lot of 50 year celebrations […]
RIP Tim Ealey
Tim was my supervisor for my honours year, and then again as I started my MSc in Zoology in 1971. His death last week at 93 has prompted my mind […]
The farewell that might have been.
Here is a story written by Siena Shirres, a year 11 student at Girton College, Bendigo, who knew and loved Alison almost as a niece.While not exactly true to life, […]
Exploring the Simpson Desert by the Hay River and Madigan Line.
Serious four wheel driving in some of the most remote desert in Australia. I left Mossman with Clare on Friday Nov 1st, taking three days of driving to reach Batten […]
Canning Stock Route August 2019
The 1820 km Canning Stock Route was initially established in 1910, with water wells being dug in a more or less straight line from Wiluna in central WA heading […]
Three weeks on Tonga
So I was off to Tonga for at least a year as an Agriculture Advisor volunteer with Australian Volunteers International. It didn’t quite work out that way. With a lift […]
Corsica and the GR20
Corsica May 2001 We actually went to Corsica pretty much by accident, as we had been planning to walk in the UK but all their footpaths were closed after a […]
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