Category Archives: Nature

If you are a regular visitor to this site, you’ll know that I love walking. The thing is: some days I enjoy it more in retrospect than in real time! By Day 8 of our walk around the Dingle Peninsula, that was certainly the case. I was tired. We’d lost the trail on a bog-covered […]

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We live in a glorious corner of the universe, with National Parks, beaches, wetlands and mountains virtually at our doorstep. Trouble is, we are on the road so much that sometimes we forget to get out and explore when we are at home. That’s where having visitors comes in handy: there is no better way to […]

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When David Lean picks a location that turns a rather slight story into an academy-award winning 12-million-dollar movie, you know the scenery must be something! And it is. Ireland’s Dingle Peninsula really does scenery on an epic scale. Tiny villages are nestled amongst green fields and hills and are bounded by great cliffs on a tumultuous […]

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Where can you go when you have overseas visitors and a new camera lens that needs trying out? What could be better than a native Australian animal sanctuary! Luckily for us, we have one right in our neighbourhood. The quaintly named “Potoroo Palace” is set off the Princes Highway, not far from Pambula and Merimbula on […]

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“You will need a bare minimum of three days to see the sights along the Yellowstone road system,” says the Yellowstone Visitors Guide. They are not exaggerating! The  Guide goes on to say: “Only 3% of Yellowstone’s visitors ever venture more than 100 yards from the road! Getting out of your car and taking even […]

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