Jackie at the the awesome World Wide Walkies blog, one of my favourite travel blogs, nominated me to participate in the Travel picture challenge. World Wide Walkies is a blogging gem, especially if your aspire to the nomad lifestyle with canine companions. The challenge is about visual images so we need to post a favourite travel picture … Continue reading Travel Challenge – Day 3
Travel challenge – day 2
Jackie at the the awesome World Wide Walkies blog, one of my favourite travel blogs, nominated me to participate in the Travel picture challenge. World Wide Walkies is a blogging gem, especially if your aspire to the nomad lifestyle with canine companions. The challenge is about visual images so we need to post a favourite … Continue reading Travel challenge – day 2
Travel Challenge – day 1
Thank you to Jackie at the the awesome World Wide Walkies blog, one of my favourite travel blogs, for nominating me to participate in the Travel picture challenge. World Wide Walkies is a blogging gem, especially if your aspire to the nomad lifestyle with canine companions. Jackie has also published some wonderful travel memoirs, I … Continue reading Travel Challenge – day 1
Bar life on the Granite Belt – (soap bar that is).
Just thought I would write about one of the best tips for making camping bathroom life easier and for reducing plastic use. It is the simplest thing to do and that is to switch to using a bar soap. When you combine the bar soap with a soap saver scrubbie bag it is even simpler. … Continue reading Bar life on the Granite Belt – (soap bar that is).
Castles and wildflowers
Want to walk in the footsteps of bushrangers? Looking for a Granite belt nature experience to which you can take a dog? Or want to just check out some really big rocks. Then the Donnelly's Castle walk is definitely worth checking out. Don't let the name fool you, there is no castle in the traditional … Continue reading Castles and wildflowers
A few critters in the spring
S and I went to Stanthorpe (QLD) last weekend, which we will post on in more detail later, and saw a lot of insects, birds and other creatures during our walks. Here are a few of their photos. It was good to see a lot of butterflies. This little fellow watched while sitting on a … Continue reading A few critters in the spring
Churchill and the Platypus
I doubt whether Hitler, even in his saner moments, could ever have had the delightful eccentricity of mind to ask for a duckbilled platypus in the middle of a war! (Fleay, 1980. p56.) public domain public domain The platypus goes to war. Due to some recent reading I was reminded of the top secret war … Continue reading Churchill and the Platypus
Tiny teardrop vs giant luxury RV
“Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people that they don't like.”― Will Rogers I find myself reflecting on our materialist tendencies. Not so much our tendency to buy things we don't want but rather our tendency to buy more than we need. I recognise that sometimes … Continue reading Tiny teardrop vs giant luxury RV
Green Maleny
So much for grand plans to post regularly, afraid last week got away from me a bit and then on the weekend we decided to do a quick overnight camp to the gorgeous village of Maleny in the Sunshine coast hinterland. Maleny is one of our regular back yard haunts and a fantastic option for … Continue reading Green Maleny
Flanagan’s Reserve and Mt Barney
So needed a bit of tree time and decided to do a quick overnight camp at Flanagan's Reserve and do a walk in the Mt Barney National park. Since we were planning a national park walk and Bronte was staying home for work and study we thought this was a good opportunity to leave Ada … Continue reading Flanagan’s Reserve and Mt Barney
