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In October this year I took a road trip along the silo art trail in the Wimmera, Southern Mallee. I went with my brother and sister and her husband. It was a nostalgic trip as we travelled through country towns familiar to us from our childhood; mostly their football grounds when Woomelang/Lascelles played away from [...]
We went to Canberra to celebrate, and for a whole week we did just that. We were there for a graduation and to catch up with Joe’s old work colleagues. And for the eight days we were in residence at this delightful B’nB which was in a great location (in Dickson), had plenty of space, [...]
We had a second fine dining experience on our last day in Buenos Aires, at Aramburu restaurant. This was named the 26th best restaurant in Latin America in 2016 and we were certainly impressed. Our taxi deposited us outside a very ominous looking building. All very dark on the outside, no glimmer of light. We [...]
That is how the town Ushuaia describes itself. Our gateway to the Antarctic, it reminded us of the television series Northern Exposure. We travelled here via Buenos Aires’ domestic airport which is situated alongside the Plat River which has the biggest estuary in the world. Looks like an ocean. Uruguay is on the other side [...]
As I’ve reflected on our trip to Antarctica, and all my photos of the ocean, I’ve been recalling the poem, that inspired the name of this blog, On The Sea, by John Keats. It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand caverns, till the spell Of Hecate [...]
