19 Friday Jun 2015
Posted in Northern Queensland, photos
Trawling through northern Queensland photos, I found a beach I can’t believe I overlooked. It is strikingly different from beaches at home: the bush reaching down to the water, the palm trees, the pebbliness, the water runnels, the assemblages left by the sea. Posting it is a way of reprising a part of a travelling year.
18 Thursday Jun 2015
Posted in Northern Queensland, photos
My trip to North Queensland yielded two very different uses of corrugated iron: modern for the studio in the Tanks arts precinct in Cairns Botanic Gardens, and old-tin-shed-style in the Main Street of Mossman.
30 Thursday Apr 2015
Posted in Northern Queensland
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Here are ten things I especially loved, in descending order
Being girly with my niece and her bridesmaids
The mangrove forest on the way to Cape Tribulation
Mossman Gorge in the rain
The Tanks Arts Centre
Cooktown history
The two exhibitions at the Cairns Regional Gallery
Walking amongst butterflies
Seeing coral from the glass-bottomed boat
Life in a hillside cabin and a campervan
Being made moderately beautiful
And four things to fear, in ascending order
Crocodiles
Cassowaries
Fear itself – of car ferries, steep hills, campervans
Falling coconuts
As close as I got to a crocodile
Not on my head, thank you
A few days after I arrived home, there was something to really fear. We had a hefty hailstorm which shredded leaves from trees, dimpled cars, smashed windscreens, pounded roofs, damaged solar panels and gave my son a lump on his head when he ventured out to protect the ute. So much for all the phantom fears of North Queensland.
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