As I awoke today I saw on the news the huge dust storm that was engulfing Sydney. Being in Brisbane for a conference, I sat there smugly thinking how lucky I was not to be there. As it turned out I was too smug too soon. By lunch time the dust storm had hit Brisbane [...]
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In February 2003, I placed a small wooden horse in a geocache in Sydney. It had been manufactured in Sweden and its task was to make it back to Sweden by being passed from cache to cache by geocachers. It made it back its factory birthplace in May 2006 and has been making its way back [...] Today I went on my first bush walk with The Bush Club. I am still a “prospective” member (despite having paid my membership fee) and have to complete three ‘membership’ walk to qualify for full membership. Not all walks fall into this category, although it looks as is none of them are hard. Today’s walk was [...] What an eventful Sunday. The day began with a visit to North Fort. This is a section of the old School of Artillery on North Head which is now a museum. As well as a display of the history of Australian artillery, there is also access to the gun emplacements and associated tunnels that where built [...] It took a long time but I have finally written up the diary from my Darwin to Broome trip. The entries are listed below. En Route to AdelaidePort AugustaApprox 50 km south of KulgeraIloquaraMantra Pandanas – DarwinMantra Pandanas – Darwin IIMerl Campground – Kakadu National ParkCooindaMary River – NTTimber CreekDoon Doon RoadhousePurnululu National Park – [...] The hovercraft ride was short but informative. The 20 year old craft glided gracefully across the beach and across Roebuck Bay on a smooth cushion of air. The bay is very calm and the high tide means that the bay is a vast mud flat twice a day. We crossed just after the peak of [...] Five minutes ago we should have been off on a sea-plane flight, jet boat ride and lunch on a pontoon at the horizontal waterfall. Forty five minutes before departure they rang to say the trip was cancelled due to insufficient bookings. the only other other company that does it had no vacancies and so we [...] A late night after a day of serendipitous meetings. We walked into town this morning and sampled the shopping. Broome is famous for its pearls and has more pearl shops per head of population than Berrima has pottery shops. Although the vast majority of the shops are catering for tourists, it doesn’t seem touristy and [...] We are in the Moonlight Bay Suites which are located at the far end of the main street of Broome, about a ten minute walk from the action. We left Derby this morning after having a quick look at the highlights of the town. there was a semi-circular jetty which is still part of an [...] We entered Derby just off dusk and saw a neon sign saying “King Sound Resort Hotel”. This looked good we thought. Parts of the sign were clearly missing as the full name of the place was “F*#King Unsound Last Resort Hotel.” |
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