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Building a Fruit Farm

November 15, 2021by digbygotts Leave a comment

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 […]

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Australia, Far North Queensland

Outback teachers

July 27, 2021by digbygotts Leave a comment

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 […]

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Australia, Lifestyle, Northern Territory

Building the Muddie

April 26, 2021by digbygotts Leave a comment

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 […]

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Australia, Lifestyle, Victoria

RIP Tim Ealey

November 2, 2020by digbygotts Leave a comment

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 […]

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Australia, Lifestyle, Victoria

The farewell that might have been.

July 21, 2020by digbygotts 2 Comments

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, […]

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Australia, Far North Queensland

Exploring the Simpson Desert by the Hay River and Madigan Line.

June 2, 2020by digbygotts Leave a comment

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 […]

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Australia, Northern Territory

Canning Stock Route August 2019

April 7, 2020by digbygotts Leave a comment

  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 […]

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Three weeks on Tonga

April 5, 2020by digbygotts 1 Comment

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 […]

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Lifestyle, The Pacific

Corsica and the GR20

October 20, 2019by digbygotts Leave a comment

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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Europe

Carnarvon Gorge Great Walk September 2019

September 20, 2019by digbygotts Leave a comment

So it was time for my first walk as a solo Grey Wolf. I booked my camps on-line for a 5 night, 6 day walk looping through and around Carnarvon […]

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Australia, Far North Queensland

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