While my father has a green thumb, my mother does not. Part of this may be due to the fact that my dad actually enjoys landscaping, cultivating trees, and tending to flowers, whereas my mother doesn’t. In a bizarre twist, though, she actually enjoys mowing the lawn. But being the genetic offspring of these two…
Month: October 2020
Flat White Wallabies
A friend had visited South Africa with his parents a few years ago and one of the souvenirs he brought back was a speeding ticket. It was his first time driving on the opposite side of the road and I was surprised to hear that he had done it. He had said that it wasn’t…
A Jolly Holiday
I saw Saving Mr. Banks about five years ago and got far more out of it than I had bargained for. The story centered around PL Travers and her reluctant consent to allow Walter Elias Disney to make her stories into a movie. The central character in these stories was a magical nanny who Travers…
The Sands of K’Gari
As we pressed on toward the beach, we watched the trees change around us. There were six unique types of forest on the island and sometimes you could see the change almost as if someone had drawn a line between them; from rainforest to mangrove forest to eucalypt woodland and back. We also trundled through…
The Dogs of K’gari
In the Butchulla language the word means ‘paradise’. Though this 76 x 14 mile island has long been known as Fraser Island, after an 1836 shipwreck survivor, the original language word describes the place much, much better. After all, no one knows who Eliza Fraser is, but anyone can clearly see how beautiful the island…