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Heading out east – Point Malcolm
For the first time in many visits to Cape Arid National Park the Pasley Track and Telegraph Track were open, allowing us to take a different route to Point Malcolm. A route that took us south from the messy Fisheries Track over an undulating kwongkan plain which...
The Burrowing Bee of Mundatharrda
After we’d paid our camping fees to the Kennedy Range NP camp host Brett, he handed me a large insect, curled up dead in a small ball, around the size of a man’s thumb. ‘This is what we’re famous for.’ I looked back at the incredible mountain range - Mundatharrda to...
The Gondwana Relicts of Palm Valley
Watarrka National Park
After the solitude of the Great Central Road, Yulara was a shock. I've been reading on theme while in the NT and re-read Tracks by Robyn Davidson. She visited Uluru with her camels in the late 1970s and described: ... the ever-increasing number of Australia and...
Visiting an icon
I found it a strange experience to visit a place so iconic as Uluru. To have seen endless photos and video images of the rock in all its immensity, and to even wonder if having it seen it so many times, whether in fact it was even necessary to visit? We each,...
The Great Central Rd (or the importance of looking closely)
Time warped or stretched or shrunk or something, while we were out on the Great Central Rd. To get from Laverton to Yulara in 3 days, which was the condition of the permit, we had to cover about 350km per day, and it seemed to take us most of the day. We did take it...