Tourists are like dragonflies on an autumn afternoon. They hurry from attraction to attraction and monument to monument in search of beauty or history, hovering over gardens, harbours and mountains, footpaths and shopfronts. Sometimes they alight softly in a library, among books rising from wall to wall...
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In Pursuit of Oz: The Blue Between
Across the valley rose the broad, flat silhouette of Mount Solitary. To our right, the Three Sisters revealed themselves from behind—an unfamiliar, almost private perspective far removed from the celebrated view at Echo Point which we would later visit. Beyond them stretched the Narrow Neck Plateau, its sandstone spine disappearing into an unbroken sea of eucalyptus.
In Pursuit of Oz: All That Light in Sydney
Nothing about the bustling waterfront around me suggested 1844. The wooden sailing ships that had once relied upon wind, tide and stars were gone. Engines, radio and radar belonged to a future beyond imagination.
In Pursuit of Oz: Lost in the Bush
Step inside and look up, and you’ll find a waterfall dropping through a perfect hole in the ceiling — like the mountain quietly decided to let a little daylight in.
In Pursuit of Oz: All Quiet on the Gold Coast
Despite being one of Australia’s best-known tourist precincts, the atmosphere felt remarkably restrained. Nobody appeared particularly interested in impressing anyone else. People walked, cycled, surfed, lingered, watched the ocean, or simply occupied themselves with the agreeable business of doing very little.
The Naked and the Mad
“You can think clearly only with your clothes on.” ~Margaret Atwood Somewhere down the evolutionary hill, or up the vertigo inducing precipice if you rather have that, we lost the ability of thinking clearly in our birthday panoply. The moments…
Fungus on the Filter
The opposite of time is memory: a span with no beginning, no end, no intervals, only nebulous swaths of consciousness. Memories don't tumble terminally like the sand in an hourglass, nor do they tick away with the finality of the…
One Grain Amongst the Storm 