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 […]
Category Archives: Australia
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 […]
Carnarvon Gorge Great Walk September 2019
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 […]
Outback Matador
Outback Matador – Bull catching Australian Style Alison Gotts 1988. Kurundi is a large cattle station in Central Australia, where the back paddock is 140 km and a four hour […]
The return to Epenarra
The Return to Epenarra – 20 years on. By Alison Gotts, November 2006 Digby and I were teachers in a 2 teacher Aboriginal school at Epenarra between 1986 and 1988. […]
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