Monthly Archives: May 2025

it will surely yield the same fruit

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Among the first things I learned after boarding the van taking our small group on a tour of Bruny Island was that the state of Tasmania isn’t simply the main island. Lutruwita is but the largest of more than 300 …

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in the direction of the sanctuary, “to the Devil!”

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If I’d paid closer attention to the detailed itinerary Road Scholar emailed prior to our trip, I might not have booked the nighttime feeding tour at Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary. We’d had a visit to Taronga Zoo, I’d been to Caversham …

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such a fatal darkness

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Remember that I called the setup at Rydges Sydney Airport Hotel that had an airport check-in just across the street brilliant. It not only allowed me to avoid any potential chaos and crowds at the main terminal but this proximity …

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Sydney First People and a Dreaming story of the Eora (Sydney and me – Supplement 2)

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This is normally the post where I’d look at the archaeological evidence of the arrival of the first or at least early humans in the area. However, in this case, a combination of factors make that too difficult an undertaking. …

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Sydney in the time before humans (Sydney and me supplement one)

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As it can be with other cities it’s tricky to isolate the geology of a continent to a specific area so, before I try to zoom in on Sydney, I’ll begin by taking a brief broader look at Australia’s interesting …

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