Day 1 – Canberra to Waikerie and a story about a dog…

Minus 3C frost and deep fog saw us depart Canberra around 0730AM. Out via Yass,we were soon heading northwest above the snowy mountains then slowly inched around to Gundagai – famous for its statue of the Dog on the Tucker Box. This commemorates a story of hardship of the early …

Road trip across Australia

Why drive across a continent when preparing to walk across a country? In some ways, a road trip has some parallels with a pilgrimage walk, in that it is time-out-of-time or time out of place, which takes us out of the day-to-day context. It is a time to build resilience …

Feature photo – Coogee Beach, NSW, Australia

I took a couple of shots at sunset and into the blue hour (the hour after sunset) and was struck by the timeless simplicity of the Coogee surf lifesaving club. I was also struck by a certain poignancy with this photo of the empty surfboard in the shallows. The surfer …