Year: 2025

  • Talbot Bay and Cyclone Creek, leading to Horizontal Falls.

    Talbot Bay and Cyclone Creek, leading to Horizontal Falls.

    We cruised into Talbot Bay through some beautiful sandstone formations but there was a lot more to come. We anchored for the night and enjoyed a BBQ on the top deck with a Bilby commemorating Easter coming out in Cloud formation – it is the Easter Holiday after all. We explored the Horizontal Falls this…

  • Montgomery Reef

    Montgomery Reef

    This is the largest inshore reef in the world thought to be around 400 sq kms. Montgomery Reef has an unusual wide tidal range up to 10 metres (33 ft). The outward movement of the tide forms a torrent of water, creating a river cutting through the reef and hundreds of cascading waterfalls. While the tide is…

  • The Lacepedes

    Errol mercifully fizzled and headed off in a different direction. So we set off from Broome into the vast blue ocean. Blink and you would miss them. Four tiny islands off the northern coast of Australia- now an A class nature reserve and what a joy. Thousands of boobies, some already with their chicks enjoying…

  • Where is Errol?

    Where is Errol?

    Will he or wont he let us start our holiday ? That is the question for today. We arrived in Broome in the north west corner of this vast country. While we wait to hear which direction the cyclone will take, we take in this beautiful town.Its commonplace to see Camels along the road. Families…

  • Feathers and Fingerprints.

    Feathers and Fingerprints.

    The artist describes it as “One Porcelain Pinch Pot. One Bird Painting. Everyday for a Year. The Pinch pots connect the maker and the medium. They are shaped between fingers, with fingerprints remaining in the clay as a trace of the maker. Porcelain was chosen, as its fragility mirrors the precarious future of so many…

  • Are you a collectaholic ?

    Are you a collectaholic ?

    I went to a lecture last week given by Marc Allum, a consultant for Antiques Roadshow. He confessed to being a “Collectaholic” from an early age. Inspired by a boyhood trip to Snowshill Manor, Marc’s most treasured item amongst his own collection is a suit of early 19th Century Samurai armour. He regaled us with stories…

  • Eucalypts

    Eucalypts

    It may not have been uppermost in most minds but March 23rd is National Eucalypt Day. So I took myself off to the Botanic Gardens to hear Bowen talk about them. Before it all recedes into the never-to-be seen again part of my brain, here are some of my takeaways. Nearly 1000 species – and…

  • Lost and found.

    Lost and found.

    My sense of direction is pitiful but the joy of that is that when I set out in a direction I thought I knew I sometimes end up somewhere else – and so on this latest walk I had some lovely ‘new moments’ in the neighbourhood. A bench constructed for all to share but with…

  • Mock orange month

    Mock orange month

    Murraya paniculata exotica aka – mock orange is a shrub like plant that is a great favourite for hedges here in Brisbane. When we first arrived and were looking for a house in this very month in 2013, I promised myself that I would buy one with such a hedge. It transported me back to…

  • Autumn Song

    Autumn Song

    Shigaraki, a town known for its pottery, is located east of Kyoto. This is where Sumiko Aoki lives with her husband and three boys. She is a ceramicist of some note – and this morning I went to her talk and exhibition at https://paperboatpress.com/. Its on until the 12th of April. Rumour has it that…