Today I was lucky enough to photograph this beautiful chunk of specimen gold in quartz. Here with my watch placed on top for scale is 2.6 kilograms of gold in a 4.6 kilogram nugget specimen. A lucky strike indeed for a very lucky amateur prospector who found this gorgeous rock last month in central Victoria. […]
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A few weeks back while exploring the Victorian Pyrenees we stumbled upon what is probably one of Country Victoria’s best kept secrets. Looking for a bit of lunch we found ourselves in the sleepy town of Avoca. A bakery was our wish and boy did we find a bakery we will never forget. We knew […]
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It comes around every year, that day that polarises our nation between the pride of being Australian and the inherited guilt of how we came to be here. The expression ‘true blue’ has been adopted to mean ‘something very Australian’ and if you ask most people what it means to them you will get very […]
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For two days we searched the Golden Triangle, central Victoria, for just a little of that elusive colour. That intoxicating lust the old timers must have felt was almost palpable here in a region which has given millions over the last 150 years. Alas despite all our brazen confidence only Mark found the tiniest piece […]
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We spotted the Logan Pub on our way from St Arnaud to the Wehla Conservation Reserve and I made the mental note, ‘I must photograph this pub on our way back’. The sun was low and the light had that soft afternoon glow when we headed back to town and there it was again, the […]
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