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…
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…
Author DaQua ◦ Part 6 ◦ The final drive of my Alice to Auburn Audacious Adventure, was within reach; 190 km south east lay my destination – the little off grid house, amongst the gum trees, that would become my…
Author Dorothy L. ◦ Music playing from my phone, it’s 03.30 and time to get up! Today is my balloon ride with Outback Ballooning! I’m out of bed but am I awake? Hopefully a tepid shower will set things right.…
Author DaQua ◦ Part 5 ◦ Good Morning Port Augusta – a former port, now a major road and rail junction commonly described as being at the crossroads of the country. For those heading North, this was the gateway to…
Author DaQua ◦ Part 4 ◦ Woomera and Roxy Downs – famous, infamous, however you wish to frame them, past or present – seeing these place names and the signposted prohibited areas the size of some small countries, that flank…
Author DaQua ◦ Part 3 ◦ White Fella in a Hole Pulling out of Coober Pedy there were two options – turn right and it would be 689 km back to Alice Springs – turn left and I would be…
Author DaQua ◦ Part 2 ◦ Faith Goes Underground and So Do I All sense of time and season, (and I daresay reason, for some), is lost when you are in a Dug Out. There is no light of day…
Author DaQua ◦ Part 1 ◦ Telling the family “You are going where?”— “Auburn, South Australia” “From Alice?”— “That’s right.” “How”— “I am driving.” “On your own?”— ” Yes, that’s right too.” “When?”— “When I am sorted.” “How long will…
Author Andrew Turner ◦ When I was young and living in Sydney, I remember going out to collect cicadas. All of us kids use to collect them, admiring them, on occasion putting them on each other, and yelling “haha you…