At a glance I could easily imagine some old civic timepiece adorning the municipal building of some sleepy Austrian village, a little after 9am on a chilly but sunny winter morning. How easy it is to imagine seeing something completely different when presented with an inaccessible perspective. In this view, the Point Lowly Lighthouse, an […]
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This seagull’s view of Point Lowly holds three of the Whyalla area’s oldest buildings, the heritage listed lighthouse and the two lighthouse keepers’ cottages. Completed in 1883, the Point Lowly assisted maritime operations for the next 90 years. Today it’s maintained operational as a tourist attraction and the cottages can be rented for holiday accommodation.
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Here anchored in the calm shallows of Sultana Bay, ‘Miros’ epitomises how to do a socially distant holiday. We are so very lucky here in South Australia with relative freedom to move about and enjoy life with only minor inconvenience. Still, if we find ourselves in lock-down again I wouldn’t mind being all-at-sea in such […]
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I wonder when that last call for drinks really was? I suspect that back in its heyday there never was a last call, just the ushering of patrons out the door. Back in 1873 the discovery of gold here transformed an inhospitable region of the South Australian outback into a nearly 500 strong community resulting […]
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How strange to imagine no travel beyond the natural borders of your town, state, country or continent. Once travel was some exotic thing others did. Then I did too and soon forgot the extraordinary privilege and responsibility that travel is and demands. Perhaps when borders open up again we we be humbled by the opportunity […]
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