“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” – John Muir Tranquility soaks into your tried bones in the cool, deep, silent embrace of Akaroa Harbour. Misty rain swirls around the hills and a rainbow simmers in the golden morning […]
The Kaikoura Earthquake Just after midnight on November 14th, 2017 the Kaikoura area suffered a severe 7.8 magnitude earthquake. The earthquake started about 60 kilometres south-west of Kaikoura near the town of Culverden and spread from fault to fault along a 150 km length of the northeast coast of the South Island. Extensive damage was done to buildings, […]
There are perfect days and then there are the ones you can wait a lifetime for! I was very lucky to find myself again at Port Stephens on a classic late spring day, calm, warm and with beautiful clear blues skies. Magic! Today I’m heading out with Imagine Cruises in the hope of seeing some […]
The Humpback southern migration is in full swing down the NSW Coast and it’s definitely time to escape the big city! So off to beautiful Port Stephens a few hours drive north of Sydney with some friends to join Moonshadow Cruises to go whale watching. September and October are by far my favourite whale watching months of […]
Jenni does her best Starsky and Hutch slide across the bonnet of her car, camera held high! Well ok not really but we’re having great fun racing around the shores of Adelaide’s Port River hoping to catch a glimpse of the locals. I’m hanging out with Jenni, Trudy, Maryann and some of the other fantastic […]
“The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be lighted!” – Plutarch The early morning is cold, crisp but beautifully clear. The tiniest sliver of a present moon hangs in the eastern sky just above the deep orange of the coming dawn. I marvel at this glorious day thankful to […]
On the coldest day so far this year I joined teams from ORRCA and NSW Parks & Wildlife on a very windblown North Head at the entrance to Sydney Harbour to count the annual Humpback Migration. I also invited Nikon Australia to come along and enjoy some whale watching with us. Overnight temperatures had dropped to […]
Walter, Wolowitz and Me I love the ongoing saga of Howard “Froot Loops” Wolowitz becoming a NASA Astronaut on the comedy series The Big Bang Theory. In very much a Walter Mitty way he loves the idea of being the heroic astronaut, wearing the jacket and all, but he is scared to death of actually doing it. […]
Sometimes, just like a shooting star someone lights up our world and lives. They make us turn our face to the heavens and make us delight in all the good and beauty of this world. Just like the shooting star they are all too often gone before we really have time to fully comprehend just […]
———————————————- UPDATE: Kaikoura Earthquake November 2016 Our thoughts, best wishes and prayers are with everyone affected by the earthquakes that struck the northern areas of New Zealand’s South Island. Please know that you have many friends around the world who are standing with you through this very tough time. We are all looking forward to […]