The wreck of the MV Excelsior in Mutton Cove (Osborne, South Australia) is in one of the oddest locations you might imagine. A short walk in what seems like a field brings you right up to her rusted forgotten bow resting in swampy wetland. Although no lives where lost on her journey here she still […]
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Glimfeather was a politically savvy talking owl who helped Eustace Scrubb and Jill Pole in their quest to find Prince Rilian in Lewis Carroll’s ‘The Silver Chair’. I asked the owl how parliament was going and if it had any thoughts on our own political shenanigans but it only looked at me then looked away. […]
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All in Balance It’s so hard to describe the beauty of this landscape, the scale of it, the life in it, the colour through it, the majesty of it. From deep in the lush valleys the grey peaks seem a world away, almost disconnected from the peaceful cosy green of heather and forest. From high […]
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Even standing still you’ll still walk this way… Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Walk This Way’, 1/60s f/4 ISO1000 17mm
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“The heart of Austria!”, my cousin exclaimed as we stood on the far side of Pasterze Glacier on the Carinthian side of the border between Carinthia and Tyrol, deep in the Austrian Alps. High in that uninviting world of ice and rock four climbers are slowly making their way up a 45 degree ridge-line to […]
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