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The Stairway to Kings Canyon, Watarrka – NT My head tilted back and my neck craned to follow the line of rugged rocky ‘steps’ rising steeply and unevenly towards the distant cobalt blue sky – There are approximately 500 “steps” to be surmounted to get to the top of Kings Canyon, (which is 465km/290miles by road SW […]
While everyone is busy setting themselves new resolutions for 2014 – Focusing on change – Did you give a second thought to any of the amazing things you accomplished last year in 2013? Maybe a resolution you set 12 months ago actually happened! Did you stop and give yourself any credit for that? Have a […]
When Patti left a comment on a blog post telling me how she created her travel journals in a scrapbook/photo format I asked her if she’d like to show and share with us the why, what, when, where and how she goes about it. The scrapbook images in this post are all from her Route 66 adventure […]
Travel Journals are generally a private affair between their creator and its pages – It’s not often one has the opportunity to take a look inside *someone else’s* journal and see how they record their journeys. I’m so grateful to Mary Morris who’s opened some of her watercolour travel journals, created over the years, to let us […]
The Morning after the Day Before… Kayaking the Katherine River There was a chill to the air as I peered out into the early morning light from under the flap of my swag. My arm flailed free from the confines of my bedroll falling on the thick outer canvas, wet with beads of dew. I was […]
Backpacking in the Outback I love the idea of slipping on a backpack, fully self sufficient for a few days and heading out into the wilderness… Totally away from it all. Away from the daily toil of work. Away from the hum-drum of life. Away from civilization Away from social media inter-connected-ness. But… And, this […]
The view was tantalizing. We were finally in a shuttle boat gliding gently up the creek between two sheer walls of stone country that rose either side to touch the sky, framing the distant escarpment and our destination Gungkurdul (Twin Falls). Peering down this narrow chasm was like looking into a lost world – ancient […]
Tell Your Story in Pictures When introduced to story telling as a child we ‘read’ picture books not through the words on each page, but via the [gorgeous] illustrations that bring the story to life. When we enter primary school we naturally express ourselves and share ideas (however silly) through drawings – But once we hit High School, we’re increasingly […]
Breathing in the space… The expansive space of the Australian Outback… The last time I felt my chest breathing in the wonderful wide open expansiveness of the Australian outback, this deeply, was when working on the edge of the Great Sandy Desert. When you watch the video below… breath… Can you smell it? (If you […]
Experience the Power of Kata Tjuta in the Valley of the Winds Have you ever stood in a landscape, so immense that you felt your chest well up as your eyes feasted on what lay before you, behind you and encompassed you? If not – (or you want to experience it again) – Go to Uluru […]
