Paws and Reflect

  Feeling bombarded? Full of the Flinders on Facebook? Whimpering over Wilpena Pound? Fear not, I'm here to give you a smidge of the history and amateur geology, and also what we got up to in between all the photos. After some planning and pondering we decided now was the best time to visit the Flinders Ranges, and mapped ourselves a neat little loop of approximately 300km taking in as much as we could with our restrictions i.e Dennis! Much of the area is designated National Park, and so no domestic dogs allowed, but we realised there were also options to combat this whilst still staying within the rules....we like rules! Current climate was also a factor in our decision to venture forth now; generally warm sunny days and cool nights. As can be seen on the route map we had mainly sealed (tarmac) roads up either side of the Ranges and a short section of around 32km of unsealed (rock, dust, gravel in various states of repair...or not). The roads do not come under National Park r...

  Sheep Hills, Victoria.  My all time favourite.  Artist: Adnate A Von Blog. In January 2020 we came across our first piece of Silo Art, it was at Yelarbon in Queensland and we, literally, came around a bend and saw this huge piece of art work on the side of a grain silo. Wow!  Most silos are around 30m-40m high and, of course, tubular (is that even a word) so being able to paint an image that is both perspectively correct and 'good', hell that's something isn't it? Yelarbon, Queensland.  Our first introduction to silo art depicts a young boy at play when the 'drought breaks'. Artist: Jordache Castillejos & Jordan Bruce The reason for me writing this particular blog is that the other week I completed a questionnaire for  Griffith University researchers who are running the first ever national   silo art survey   to determine the impacts of this uniquely Australian art movement on both visitors and local communities. There is no d...

       By Crikey...yes I'm sounding more Australian by the month. Talking of which, it's been a whole month since we blogged. For those who've been daring to ride the Facebook journey you may well have realised by now we are LOVING South Australia! Even if we ignore, like we could, the 5 wine regions and the amazing shorelines, there has been plenty to keep us, and hopefully you, amused. I promise there is no footage of singing on this blog. We are aware that our friends and family in the UK are about to be set free (whatever that looks like) so an anticipated drop in readership might well be on the cards......particularly if Power Ballad Wednesday continues! I'm currently composing this blog from a very lovely cool spot in our re-visit/continuum house sitting in the Barossa. It's a hot 32C here today but with a 9C overnight so not too bad at all. Back to the blog....it's been a busy month and rather than blether on for hours I've picked a particular f...

Yep I’m back, having wrestled the blog from Dennis and Von, and to assure folks I can still string a sentence together...sort of. It’s been a while since I’ve put words together so forgive me if I ramble on….no change there then! I’m currently sat in the small coastal town of Kingston S.E in South Australia ; S.E refers to it’s location on the S.E Coast of South Australia?! Population 1,648….somewhat swollen at this current moment due to it being the South Australian and Victorian ‘long weekend’.  The South Australian long weekend is due, in part, to the Adelaide Cup on Monday. This is a HORSE Race which stops the State and earns everyone a Public Holiday. I had to google why the Victorians are having a long weekend as it is not Melbourne Cup Day (their HORSE race) tomorrow. Apparently in Victoria it is Labour Day, which it appears everyone else in Australia celebrates on the first weekend in September ?! Labour Day is to mark the creation of the 8 hour working day in Australia and...