Welcome to Ausemade… coming to you from the ‘heart of Australia’.
Welcome to the New Year 2021… as we look forward to a changed and changing world…
Our website continues with the complete revamp, as we continue with expanding our content. Our blogs section is growing, with our first one for the year, Looking forward and blogger Andrew Turner’s The Camouflaged Pisser. Read the latest from our resident bird contributor Dorothy L with her I don’t like heights and I’m going up in a balloon??? We would also like to welcome our latest blogger Da Qua, who will be taking us on a journey, both physically and internally with her 7 part blog Alice to Auburn – the Audacity of Adventure.
We are still writing about select tourism destinations, as well as covering topics that interest us such as Art and Culture, Festivals and Events. And for a more personal touch, we will be bringing our thoughts, our musings, our experiences… through articles and blog style ramblings…
Just published from our archives, some of the “art in the park” or as in the case of Alice Springs “art in the Botanic Garden“. Some of these works are still amazing even after all this time and we cannot wait for the next event. Also check out our content Snapshots: Art of Alice Springs (the page will continue to grow and evolve).
As we are based in the heart of the continent, we will show you much more content from Central Australia. Like the region’s local Western Bowerbirds, we will be bringing nuggets of treasures, of places we have been to, things we have seen, and other items that catch our interest.
Don’t worry, we will be retaining some of our popular content, including many of the photos and images, fauna, flora and Aboriginal art and culture… all the things that make Australia home…
Take a stroll through our site, as we ‘showcase Australia’… See the places we have been, share our interest in flora and fauna, festivals and events that we have experienced, and learn about Australia from the coasts to ‘the living heart’…
Flora and fauna is one of our favourite subjects at Ausemade… indeed what a poorer world we would live in if there was not the beautiful diversity. In Australia there is an amazing array of life from the smallest of insects to the huge whales that swim up and down our coastline. There is the rare Waddy-wood (Acacia peuce), you can even see the waddy at the Mac Clarke Conservation Reserve. Even in our own backyards, we can be surprised and delighted by what grows and lives there. New addition includes Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus), Red Mulga (Acacia cyperophylla), Portulaca and Portulaca intraterranea.
New content has been added to Alice Springs, and other topical stuff that reveals the not so arid heart as we talk about Water in Central Australia.
We look forward to events coming this year including the Parrtjima Festival and attractions that have remained open such as the Alice Springs Desert Park and of course the many scenic locations in Central Australia.
Throughout the site we source information, listing them in our Footnotes & References and on our publication page, we list books and other sources we enjoy here at Ausemade.
- There are dragons in my garden
Author Koh Lin ◦ I grew up with dragons… they appeared in story books and on the television and there was St George, but he slayed the dragon. Now we have friendly dragons filling our screens. Of course we all know there are bad dragons and good dragons and those in between. From animated dragons… - CBC… fostering
Author JeLa D. ◦ Photos by Dorothy L. ◦ Drop them off at the creche, pick them up as a teenager… It’s coming up to 1800 hours (6 pm) and I’m sitting outside waiting, it’s very quiet as I haven’t heard the Channel-billed Cuckoo since this morning, nor the Torresian Crow for that matter. Yesterday… - Auburn Awaits
Author DaQua ◦ Part 7 ◦ With less than two hours to go to my destination of Auburn, my mind drifted back and forth. In the past three days, I had left behind the storm of Alice, with desert rains and searing sun chasing each other down the highway, with me in hot pursuit. I…