Stories from Australia

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The Upside-Down Diaries 2012

If it’s time to go, remember what you’re leaving. Remember the best. My friends have always been the best of…
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James Price Point video and Exhibition

If visitors arrived from another planet and took an overall view of our common problems, I presume they would tell…
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The Tale of King George Falls

The location is the Kimberley in Western Australia after a record setting wet season.. The scene is the mighty King…
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Kimberley Tales Video

As per tradition, we the on board photographers on True North presented a slideshow movie on the last night of…
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Kimberley Tales

I barely remember what I just did. I forget what comes next. I live only now. Existing, living, breathing in…
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Fantastic Four Fotographers of the Southwest

Once in a blue moon great teams come together. The Fantastic Four Fotographers of the Australian Southwest is one such…
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Jarlmadangah and the Full Moon

“Blackfella headlights” cracks Billy and we all share a good laugh. I am at Jarlmadangah aboriginal community. Billy from the…
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CAKE crew in Marble Bar and finds a caravan park

It is time for another travel story from the CAKE adventures of Rod Thomas, Casey Smith and yours truly. “There…
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CAKE crew meets Camel Man

“Walla walla. Walla Lalla!”. That is what it sounds like repeated over and over! But Camel Man is actually shouting…
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Three Men in a Troopie

Plans. Some say life is what happens when you are busy making other plans. I disagree. Life is simply What…
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Kimberley, final frontier, no shock absorbers

Kimberley. Final Frontier. Captain’s log, stardate 8975.1. We received a distress call from bloody tourists lost in the wild and…
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A day with the Jarlmadangah mob

This week I had the pleasure of visiting the Jarlmadangah Burru aboriginal community and spending a day out in their…
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On Broome Time and oh the stupidity.

Lazy Days. Holiday mode. I don’t usually allow myself much time to relax while travelling (must shoot photos. Will die…
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The Hawk Dreaming Aboriginal Art Experience

I wish to take you on a journey into one of the Hawk Dreaming rock art shelters and try and…
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In the footsteps of Bill Neidjie and the Bunitj Clan

Imagine sitting in a shelter, a large natural rock cave 30 meters above ground. Look out over the floodplains and…
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Kimberley. Home.

“Man was born in the desert. Desert is home.” writes Bruce Chatwin. The Kimberley in North West Australia is not…
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Hawk Dreaming and Big Bill Neidjie

I have been preparing this story for some time. It’s a story of great importance to me. It’s a story…
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Hawk Dreaming – you couldn’t dream it better

Cannon rock, notice the flock of magpie geeseAboriginal art at Hawk Dreaming I thought I would start out with a…