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what goes around…
I have mostly lived my life trying to learn lessons from everything that I do or that has happened to me. I have mostly found wisdom…sooner or later. A few weeks ago we were in Sydney and on our way to catch a tram, arms loaded with things for our daughter as well as an…
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home from the sea…
Home again from the rolling sea, home again are we, home again from the sea… I know it has been a while since I’ve published a piece. I’ve started quite a few in recent months, but life has me on a swivel at the moment and no sooner do I process something that has happened…
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some crabby thoughts…
So much has happened these recent weeks I hardly know where to begin. I have been disappointed, inspired, challenged, delighted, sometimes all in the same hour. But today what is on my mind are crabs. Apparently they are adaptable survivors. So much so, that other unrelated species have evolved to resemble crabs. My crabby thoughts…
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scraping away the webs…
There you are…wondering ‘is she ever going to publish anything again?’ Here is your answer, for better or worse. Yes. I am. After the storm in November, Don and I both had health episodes that led us into Christmas and then our first major trip away in three years. We returned in late January and…
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if this isn’t nice…
The first of our trips to places that were rebuilding after the bush fires was a trip ‘overseas’. More specifically during a trip to Adelaide (1500k/1000miles south of Alice) to visit our daughter, we had a side trip of a twenty-five minute plane ride over water to Kangaroo Island. Most of you will remember the…
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last one out…
We could have had one last safari, making six, before we left Gondwana. But the last two had taken a toll on my tummy that I just couldn’t shake. The effect was worse than the roughest seas on the cruise and Don was happy to be done as well. We decided to get an early…
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safari, so good…
We had set our alarms for 5.20am the next morning. Somehow 5.30 didn’t seem quite enough for two people to be ready and present for a 6am safari departure. It was tough. The activity, anxiety and travel was beginning to wear on us. The early start, before sunrise, was the reverse of the evening before.…
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Gondwana…
We had it on good advice that Gondwana* Game Reserve would not disappoint us in our desire to see African animals. But honestly, how many wonderful animal experiences could a person rightly expect from one trip? It was hard to believe that anything could live up to the experiences we had just witnessed on our…
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a nervous time…
Thirty-six hours prior to landing in CapeTown saw us hit the roughest seas of the trip. The sick bags appeared on the hand rails again, and this time, both Don and I were feeling passing waves (excuse the pun) of seasickness. We visited the bridge to watch the huge swell and waves lash the ship,…
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Tristan da Cunha…
After the Captain’s tale of the Somali pirates, most of us would have followed him anywhere. So, when we approached the first of our supposed excursions around the Tristan da Cunha group (Gough Island) if he had said ‘Jump!’, to get into the zodiacs, we might have done it! However, the seas were rough and…
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