Last weekend we made a trip to Whyalla on South Australia’s Spencer Gulf to frolic in the wintry ocean with our Giant Cuttlefish for their seasonal breeding congregation. This year I was delighted with the numbers, as hundred and hundreds of mating crazed cuttlefish could be found along the shallow coastline west from Port Lowley. […]
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Look at the rainbow behind us Jennifer exclaimed; looking away from the beautiful sunset over Hummocks Range west of Lake Bumbunga near Lochiel. We both agreed we’d never seen a rainbow like it before. It was if a painter had taken to the sky creating wispy downward brush strokes of colour. It’s raining a rainbow […]
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Diving in South Australia would not be the same if every dive was not frequented by old wives! An odd name for these attractive fish but as I am told their name comes from the way they behave when caught by fishers and the way they carry on when landed. I am happy to see […]
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Mining is tough. Mining in arid outback Australia even tougher. Imagine your self back in the late 1800s, armed with a pick, a shovel and a wheel barrow and working a 12 hour hard labour day. If you’re still determined to endure such hardship then throw in breathing silicate dust all day and having your […]
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Expansive vistas are hard. Looking out over a landscape that takes your breath away and trying to articulate to someone else why is the realm of poets. It’s not easily expressed. It’s easy to see why you say; “just look at it, out there, at all of it!’ And that’s it right there, the ‘all […]
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