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Category Archives: Australia

Losing the car

January 7, 2023by digbygotts 1 Comment

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 […]

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Australia, Far North Queensland, Lifestyle, Uncategorized

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

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

Outback Matador

August 31, 2019by digbygotts Leave a comment

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 […]

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Australia, Lifestyle, Northern Territory

The return to Epenarra

August 29, 2019by digbygotts Leave a comment

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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Australia, Northern Territory

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