"Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it." – Mary Oliver

Category: Travel

  • An extended weekend at Wilson’s Promontory and our Anniversary

    We took Thursday and Friday off work last week and headed down to Wilson’s Promontory with friends. But first, we celebrated our 26th anniversary on Wednesday. I’ve been keen to try Gimlet since we got out of lockdown, but scoring a table is hard. I booked for Wednesday in mid-January, and we had a choice…

  • Victorian National Parks

    At the start of the year, I made a goal to visit all 45 of Victoria’s National Parks, plus the Castlemaine National Heritage Park. I have already seen some of them in the past, but I’m keen to go back and see those again. I ticked off the Mornington Peninsula National Park while doing the…

  • The state of the river

    Last weekend we went up to Moama for the Pop and Pour festival. We had been wondering whether it would go ahead because of the widespread flooding through Victoria in mid-October. Echuca-Moama is situated where the Campaspe and Goulbourn Rivers flow I, not the Murray River. Both these rivers had flooded upstream from Echuca before…

  • This , then,

    is the extravagant landscape of the world, given, given with pizzazz, given in good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over. Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

  • Kayaking in the Noosa Everglades

    While up in Noosa earlier this year my daughter and I went on a kayaking trip through the Noosa Everglades. We had a beautiful day, even the lake was smooth as we made our way across to the river of mirrors. This is probably one of the best ways to experience the everglades as it…