Australia:

My New Neighbours – Tawny Frogmouths in Melbourne

4 July 2020 | Living

Glaring resolutely down at me from a tree just across the fence from my backyard was what I took at first to be an owl. In fact it was a tawny frogmouth. The next day it had moved to a different perch and was still keeping a close eye on me, but now accompanied by a s...

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The Winton Wetlands & more Silo Art

19 June 2020 | Places

Silo art has become an attraction all over rural Australia in the last few years. Check this website for an excellent overview of the story all over the continent. In April last year I spent two days following the silo art trail in the Wimmera region in the north-west...

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More Locked Down in Melbourne – and my virus test

25 May 2020 | Living

Well I’ve posted about where I haven’t been going, about my empty city of Melbourne and where I have been travelling recently – walking and cycling along Melbourne’s Yarra River. ▲ And visiting Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport. It was a rare opportunity to see a de...

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Walking & Cycling up Melbourne’s Yarra River

19 May 2020 | Places

Of course international travel has completely shut down and in Australia even domestic travel doesn’t extend very far. We really can’t travel interstate at the moment. So I’ve been walking and cycling along the Yarra River, the river which runs, from source to sea, fo...

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The Great Southern – a great train trip

17 December 2019 | Transport

Want to fly down to Adelaide, spend three days on a new luxury train service to Brisbane, fly back home to Melbourne and write a story about it the man from the Daily Telegraph in London enquired? Sure, why not I agreed, although I was somewhat puzzled that they knew ...

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