What a difference a week makes

Such is the sometimes cruel and sudden changeability in the Australian weather that this week triggered long trousers and jumpers, a cool moist easterly airstream cutting temperatures in half and giving the land a fighting chance. The land is a tough cookie and six years after bushfires ravaged a huge area of the ACT and Canberra, the Tidbinbilla Valley flourishes in life and peace and sanctuary.

The Sanctuary at Tidbinbilla is the perfect name for a meandering track through wetlands, eucalypt forest, grassland and virtually every habitat in between. It pulses with life, from not very scary unidentifiable tree mice, to slightly more worrying emus to very scary snakes slithering away before you can take a picture of them.



Outside of the Sanctuary are of course countless roos, possibly scary, although most of the time they just run away from you once they’ve stared you out. For some reason, I can’t help but picture the kangaroo with a machine gun in Crocodile Dundee… they just have that look about them.

Now I would like to point out a new link we have on the right of this here blog – it’s a work in process but I have started making my very own Google Map, showing the tiny portion of Australia covered in my travels and some pictures during those times. The aim is to keep it updated each week. Now you can know not only exactly what I have been up to but where I have been. Ah, life in the public domain!