Category: Travel
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My other car is a Mercedes
I love coming across home grown creativity such as this humourous hedge clip in a garden in Mytleford, Victoria. Too good a photo oppertunity to miss, it prompted me to get off my bike. Mytleford, a 30km bike ride along the Murrey to Mountains Rail Trail from Bright, was our lunch destination. The Rail Trail…
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Homeward bound
There comes a point on a holiday when the focus changes abruptly. The anticipation of new destinations, and the enjoyment of the journey fade into to past. Now there is a goal directed singlemindedness; you are heading for home. Being homeward bound has its own particular rythme. A long day’s highway drive is punctuated by…
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The things we do to trees
This is the most bizarre, extreme power line tree trim I have ever seen. Photographed on the Great Alpine Road in the Ovens Valley in North East Victoria, the tree forms part of the avenue leading into the pretty village of Harrietville. The image unsettles me in the same way a surrealist painting does. For…
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Seats on the sand
There is something irresistible about unexpected, improvised creature comforts on a deserted beach. These chairs invite you to stop and take in the view. Perhaps some thoughtful locals placed them on Queens Head North Shore Beach. Or was it surfers, who use the spot to survey the waves? From the stone breakwater at Port Macquarie…
ART by Jude Tulloch 