Weekly Photo Challenge: Unexpected
Unbeknownst to two European bathers, an unexpected terror stalks the white sands of Cottesloe Beach. Great White sharks are not the only man-eating menace along this Western Australian coastline. Here, […]
Category Archives: South Pacific
An Absence of Internet, and the Benefits of Isolation
“Well I’m changing all my strings, I’m gonna write another travelin’ song. About all the billion highways and the cities at the break of dawn. I guess the best that […]
Flavor of the Week: Kangaroo Tail Soup
To look at the frozen bloody stump that once propelled Australia’s icon across the Outback is to seriously consider vegetarianism. And that’s a dramatic statement, given my current location. Down […]
How to Love a Town You Don’t, Steps 5-8
Two years ago, daily lamentations filled up the journal I had carried to an isolated mining town in Western Australia. Against all good advice to “make the most of it,” I hated Newman. The bugs, […]
Escape From Nundroo, #1: Fowlers Bay
Salt, decomposing meat and uprooted seaweed – that distinctive odor of the ocean – floods my nostrils as I climb out of the truck. The others don’t find it appealing. “It smells like […]
Postage Stamp: Nundroo, South Australia
From our room, the passing road trains sound like swooping aircraft, not the earth-bound rush of mighty 18-wheelers bearing their goods eastward. The highway sustains life out here. It is […]
Travel Theme: Architecture
Australia’s architecture is determined by the tyranny of its distances. 4,100 km (2,547 m) between coasts create a country of stylistic opposites. From the colonial domes of Melbourne’s Flinders Street Station… […]
Too Mutch For Words 