Lake Lockie and its big brother, Lake Hattah, in the Hattah-Kulkyne National Park of northern Victoria is little natural wonder I have only just discovered. As the Murray River winds it’s way through the arid mallee scrub of this region it spills out onto wetlands that cycle from wet to completely dry. For much of […]
Read MoreMan of War
The Bluebottle jellyfish (Physalia utriculus), also known as the Pacific Man O’War, is a complete stranger to my local South Australian waters but here on Bondi Beach, Sydney we found hundreds of them washed ashore. One poor unsuspecting child must have found these bright blue toys scattered all around too irresistible to ignore. We heard […]
Read MoreBirdcages
‘Birdcages’, hidden away in Angel Place Sydney is a magical art installation where the artist, Michael Thomas Hill, has combined suspended birdcages accompanied by recorded sounds of the birds that once lived here. Walking beneath these cages and hearing those beautiful sounds was both strange and soothing. For a brief moment the city wound its […]
Read MorePlanet Establishment
To me lighting is everything but usually its about how the light falls on the things around us. Sometimes though it is just about the lights and the lighting in Sydney’s ‘The Establishment’ blew me away. It’s more of a globular cluster really rather than a planet but I could not make that roll off […]
Read MoreBronze Life Saver
I’ve only visited Sydney’s Bondi beach a few times and every time I find the visual spectacle of surf, beach and thousands of people quite amazing. After walking the water’s edge from one end to the other and back again I was reminded just how seriously the surf lifesavers were taking their responsibility. Fortunately we […]
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