Category Archives: Australia Where can you go when you have overseas visitors and a new camera lens that needs trying out? What could be better than a native Australian animal sanctuary! Luckily for us, we have one right in our neighbourhood. The quaintly named “Potoroo Palace” is set off the Princes Highway, not far from Pambula and Merimbula on […]  There can be no better place to recharge one’s batteries and to make plans for the future, than the mountains. Of course, it is fair to say that Australian mountains are more like hills by world standards, with Mt Kosciuskzo, the highest, standing at only 2,228 meters. Even so, whenever I’m in the Snowy Mountains I revel in […]  The humpback whales of the Australian east coast are currently making their annual migration south. Starting from the Great Barrier Reef, where they mate and give birth in warmer waters, they begin moving towards their summer feeding grounds off Antarctica in late July. By October and November, humpbacks are commonly sighted in the sheltered waters off Eden, on NSW’s […]  As politically-incorrect as it might be, I love visiting zoos. There is something magical about being able to get up close-and-personal to some of the world’s wild creatures. Ok – so they are not entirely wild creatures when they are held, and often born and bred, in captivity. I understand the arguments for and against zoos, […]  Some stories are better than fiction. In Eden, where we now live, people have had a long relationship with the sea and the sea’s creatures – especially whales. The earliest inhabitants of the area, the Thawa people of the Yuin nation, conducted ceremonies and feasts in honour of killer whales – orcas – whom they called Beowas; “brothers” or “kin”. Because these […] |
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