Category: Travel
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Happy New Year… 2025
Author Koh Lin â—¦ Welcome to 2025, the first flower from our Stapelia next to our fish pond. Then a stroll in our backyard, to our forever bower of the Western Bowerbird, still adorn with treasures that have been continually… Continue reading
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Bird Watching at the Beanie Festival 2023
Alice Springs Beanie Festival Author Koh Lin â—¦ Wow… the Alice Springs Beanie Festival 2023 has done it again… known as the Beanie Centre of the world, the iconic festival event that brings beanies from around Australia and also from… Continue reading
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Welcoming the New Year…
It has become a little tradition here at Ausemade when we look forward to the New Year and we talk about our Western Bowerbird that still has his bower in our backyard… after a little reminder popped up in our… Continue reading
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Instead of going straight, I turned…
Author Shebah Alice Springs â—¦ Who would have believed it… after all these days, weeks and months, instead of going straight, I turned… right. Yaaahhhh… having done the endless hours of down the road to Uluru, I finally get to… Continue reading
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The Right Equipment
Author Shebah Alice Springs â—¦ Had a call out from Bianca and Elly this morning from Simpson’s Gap.They needed a new backpack because the one Bianca took was slowing them down. Very important to have the right gear that you… Continue reading
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Henry… at the Gap
…a morning at Simpsons Gap Author Dorothy L. â—¦ After all the rain of the past week, it was time for a visit to Simpsons Gap this morning. Besides my passion for bird photography, I’m also into insects, and a… Continue reading
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Raining on the Rock
The 1% Club â—¦ Author Shebah Alice Springs â—¦ As I sit here listening to the pouring rain, I have a flashback of another time… Christmas was coming up quickly and although I love being with family, 2016 was spent… Continue reading
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Flashback with friends…
We had been in Central Australia for just over a year, when in 2007, our friends Tum and Patrice came to visit. We have been thinking of them lately and have looked back through our photos of that time and… Continue reading
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The Doctors Have a Point
Waitati Wandering – Part Two Author DaQua â—¦ I relished my off the beaten track wanderings in Waitati, it is such a welcoming ‘village,’ oozing creativity, colour and sense of community. Locals tell of the lore and history of the… Continue reading
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Waitati Wandering
Author DaQua â—¦ One of my favourite pursuits whilst spending time with family in Alice Springs, and in New Zealand, is to get off the beaten track and discover the real backyard; choosing to ‘live’ in an area and not… Continue reading
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Tekapo Tribute
Author DaQua â—¦ It is always an adventure to hit the road again with that sense of anticipation and exploration that can turn the ordinary into the extraordinary at every turn. But today our hearts were heavier than usual as… Continue reading
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New Zealand has a Castle?
Author DaQua â—¦ As a woman who hails from Wales, a land of myths and castles, my curiosity was piqued when I learnt that across the harbour from Dunedin, on the Otago Peninsula, stood New Zealand’s only castle. Wales, is… Continue reading