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When you’ve been driving for miles (and miles) up the Stuart Highway across the parched outback landscape of central Australia, with the temperature rising… Its a welcome sight to come across… The Historic Daly Waters Pub Situated 600km (370 miles) south of Darwin and 900km (560 miles) north of Alice Springs, the original building was […]
We see the world through a rainbow coloured spectrum – But how about focusing on just the primary colours of Red, Blue, Yellow – plus Green and White. This is the challenge bloggers have been set. Last year, my Capture the Colour photos primarily reflected my trip to Europe (although my favourite was the one and […]
“This bush ‘ere…“ he said, pulling up his horse and swinging his leg over its rump to step out of the stirrup and grab a handful of leaves “I show you” he muttered softly as he slipped his water container off from his back, poured a few drops of liquid gold onto the leaves and rubbed […]
It was nearly midnight. I went to flick the switch on my computer for the night, and yawning took one last look at my twitter stream. I love the Territory – The Territory is where I first landed in Australia, and was all I saw of the Antipodes on that initial trip Down Under. Working (and […]
Do you hear yourself saying… “Where did that time go to?” “What happened to that month?” Me too! But lets be honest, there comes a time when you can’t keep saying something, and not do anything about it. So, three and a half years ago, I did! I made a change. I began a […]
We had an almighty storm roll in. So dramatic… The palm trees were battered, trees were brought down, all resulting in no power for 3 days Wind and Rain Wind and rain pounded the house blasting water up under the eaves, where it regrouped into rivulets reappearing as huge splodgy droplets on the inside of […]
It was a perfect Queensland autumn morning in the Bay off Brisbane. After weeks of rain, the excitement of seeing a sky of blue and a sea sparkling like diamonds had me out of the door and off on a morning walk in the woods before settling down to my day job – Hand drawing […]
As I approached the island jetty, the sun was rising over Stradbroke, the second largest sand island in the world. And the early morning passenger ferry taking commuters to the Australian mainland for the day, appeared across the sparkly waters of South Moreton Bay. I was on my way to Brisbane city, Queensland’s state capital. […]
One of our fabulous readers Red Nomad Oz, travels Australia and records her discoveries on her entertaining website Amazing Australian Adventures. In 2011 Red wrote a post for us here called My Journey Jottings Aussie Odyssey recounting where she’d spotted Journey Jottings’ Journal Maps and Mail-It Maps as she criss-crossed Australia’s outback visiting Mildura in Victoria, Wentworth […]
Australia Travel Notebook Published Things always get a bit chaotic here at Journey Jottings when we’re putting out a new product. Once the design is sorted, the practicalities of getting the artwork to press becomes all consuming. Paper samples are fondled and folded and felt for the right feel. Notebooks are for writing so the feel […]
