waiting, swaying in heated air the dry grass progeny of last year’s flood is waiting, sun-roasting in pale gum leaves, the incendiary oil of the eucalypt is waiting, leaning in drunken daze with barbed wire handcuffs tight, the wooden post is waiting, baking under paint fractured by mercury and mango shade, the timber house is […]
The Crush Sugar cane harvest in full swing, season of the Crush. Syrup in a cane, fields of candy sticks in green, giant harvesting machines collecting sweet payback, bumper crop of lolly, even sweeter now, the bitter aftertaste of last year’s flood has been sugared. Cane is stockpiled on trains and trucks, ready for mills. […]
We’re back from a short trip to the Coral Coast. We stayed at Innes Park, 5 minutes south of Bargara beach. This area is where the Great Barrier Reef begins. It was rainy and very windy for the first couple of days. We had bad reception so there was no internet. The television aerial was […]
Some local wildlife instead:
Just got back from a short family holiday at Bargara beach – about an hours drive North from us and the southern end of the Great Barrier Reef. I haven’t actually seen the Great Barrier Reef but intend to one day soon before it disappears. There is 100 percent agreement among climate scientists that human activity […]
Looks like this massive cyclone Yasi is heading towards Cairns. They are evacuating the Cairns Base Hospital as I write this! That is a long way north of us so we should be fine as long as it stays on the predicted track. This cyclone is posing a serious threat to Northern Queensland as it […]
This happened about a year ago. Tessa was playing on the verandah. ‘Mum, there’s a snake down there’, she said as she lay on the floorboards, peering through the cracks between the planks. The snake was eating a live frog (they taste better fresh). The snake had more than half of the frog in its […]
Flood flood waters rise in fury new bridge drowning baptism gone awry ~ strong brown water swirling free across the floodway foolish driver perched in tree ~ teenagers out for a thrill blow-up mattresses no match for raging river ~ The weather is going crazy! I live in a small seaside town in Central […]
