There’s something intriguing and a little creepy about track walking along a disused line, following rusted rails through knee-high grass across a seemingly endless plain. Old train lines are forsaken places, containing frayed memories that linger beneath the encroaching wild. With this in mind I decided I’d walk a section of the old Casino to …
I’ve been going to a place on the top of a hill a lot lately, needing some time out as I’ve been busy freelance writing. It’s a place called Eric Wright Lookout and it offers a nice view over the town of Byron Bay, the bay itself and the hinterland mountains, which fade into distant …
Time is an interesting and equally unnerving concept, at least to me. It’s unnerving because our life is finite. At some point, it ends. Time also appears to speed up the older we get. Have you ever experienced that? I was reading a blog post today and it got me thinking about how time is …
The instant we stepped from the car at Goanna Headland in Evans Head, NSW, a dog howled mournfully in the distance. I thought this a little strange, almost cheesy. Menacing clouds then gathered overhead as we set off along the headland – one of the most easterly points on the Australian mainland that’s sacred to …
The small coastal town of Lennox Head, NSW, has come a long way since the Bundjalung people engaged in tribal warfare on the long, golden sands of Seven Mile Beach. In 1828, this paradisiacal place was established and named by Captain Henry John Rous after Charles Lennox, the Duke of Richmond. Today Lennox Head is …