There’s a short time twenty to thirty minutes after sunset where something magical happens to Uluru. The combination of darkening sky and the spreading yellow glow of the horizon lights the land in a deep orange glow and makes the rock look like it’s glowing from within. So many people had packed up and headed […]
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I remember once hearing an old Polynesian saying, ‘The gods do not deduct from man’s allotted span the hours spent in fishing’. I am certain that there also exists the same grace when taking the time to watch the sun fall through the changing colours of the darkening horizon into evening twilight. For a time […]
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Down in that valley far, far below hidden amidst the unlikely combination of eucalyptus trees and ancient cycad palms is Kings Creek. From up here the sense of scale is all but gone, the grandeur becoming abstract with the world below looking like some artisan’s crafted landscape garden. From down there looking back up at […]
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Looking directly up into the Milky Way and the constellation of Scorpio I see two wandering planets amid a sea of stars An orange Mars, the largest and brightest lingers on the back of the scorpion gazing off at the eerie glow of the Blue Horsehead Nebula to the left. The red giant Antares lights […]
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There is a huge debate debate in Australia in regards to the storage of radioactive waste. As the world grapples with the problems of dealing with the waste of nuclear power stations, science and the use of radioactive materials in medicine some governments are looking at Australia’s vast barren unpopulated outback regions as a possible […]
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