Year: 2019

My lovely friend Ellen alerted me to this so a morning was spent exploring the lane ways and seeing the artists actually putting up some of the art work on buildings in the city. Here are some of the wonderful results. https://www.darwinstreetartfestival.com.aug  This is my favourite !  Miss Polly executing her fine green world.  And finally…

So this was a Bomb Dump.This is where the Australian Army kept all its ammunition. And they have sensibly kept all the evidence in INERT form you will be pleased to hear, as a salutary reminder of the horrors of war. There was an exhibition in one of the ammunition hangers they preserved. What I…

This deserves a blog all of its own. We came across two types of Termite Towers yesterday in Litchfield National Park. They are Magnetic and Cathedral  Mounds- so let me guide you to them. The architects and builders are these tiny insects that measure about 4 to 15 mm. Admittedly there may be a fair…

Litchfield is some 90 kms from Darwin along the famous Stuart Highway. There is a road which actually crosses the park and NT have made a brilliant job of making many of the park’s attractions very accessible and so very enjoyable. It was difficult to know what to expect. The ground is very dry and…

It’s not a big city and having being destroyed twice, not much has been preserved. Darwin was bombed by the Japanese in 1942 and was again destroyed in Hurricane Tracy on Christmas Eve in 1974. So with that in mind we walked along to the city taking in the old and restored Court House which…

We set off this morning from Brisbane and as the plane took off we had a magnificent view of the city and the river. It is such a beautiful place. A little further a view of the coastline shimmering and the more worrying picture of the smoke from the fires in the hinterland of the…

Walking in I come across the Angel’s Place. A specially designed dome to house the story of Alexis Wright’s “Carpenteria”. There is a light and sound show, all decorated with the original art work of Gordon Hickey and some wonderful moving imagery. I started the day early with “Stop Everything” – a lovely radio programme…

Back on this beautiful continent and within a day or so it was the beginning of Spring. Wandered around the garden to notice the new growth, the small buds and unfurling leaves. The days sunny and warm, perhaps a little too warm, and I do hope that Spring hasn’t come and gone already.  Looking across…

A short walk up the hill from the Hotel to our son and daughter in law I come across beautiful berries in many gardens. It’s that time of year and once I had noticed the first, they all were coming out to me.  The berry on the cake was seeing the little superman who was…

We travelled down ever increasing narrow roads until the hedges reached high above us and there was only room for one car. We were wary of farmers making hay while the sun shone (literally) and moving their bales on the roads. One of us would have to reverse a long way. We relied on Google…