downunder update

Many a weary traveller through Winton tells of the eerie lights over the graveyard at Min Min. Drovers, stockmen, prospectors, truck drivers and bush walkers have been followed by the Min Min Lights and, while cattle ignore the phenomena, dogs and horses have been thoroughly spooked.
There’s not much else going on [...]

Sovereign Hill
You never find me at home in the first week of December. I’m up in Ballarat. My grandparents used to take me, way back in the 1950s, for Nana had a particular tie to the town, her grandfather was there, at the barricades, in the bloody days of the Eureka [...]

Travel on the ferry, the Spirit of Tasmania
Bass Strait separates Tasmania from mainland Australia. Sailing vessels once fought their way from the Southern Ocean through a treacherous passage, losing many sailors to the waters, and today, storms whip up massive seas claiming lives from modern racing yachts. The seas in the Strait produce huge [...]