Two hours before our ghost tour at Tasmania’s World Heritage convict site of Port Arthur, my friend and I were given free reign to explore. It’s a typically busy place, although this afternoon it was empty, as I imagined it was in the years after it was abandoned in 1877. Wandering across the spacious grounds, …
It was a fitting afternoon to begin our tour at Tasmania’s World Heritage convict site of Port Arthur – reputedly one of Australia’s most haunted places. We met at dusk, it was chilly, the sky was leaden grey and spires of the convict-built church were cast into shadow as several people were made lantern bearers. …
I often forget how recently Australia was civilised until I come across its oldest buildings. Take our oldest bridge for example, built in 1825 in one of my all-time-favourite places in the world, Tasmania. Named the Richmond Bridge, it’s comparatively youthful in the world of stone and mortar. Not that it matters because it looks …
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It was a bleak, drizzly January morning and not a coffee shop was open at 7:50am in Guyra, a small highland town about 30 minutes north of Armidale in NSW. I was a couple of days early for the town’s main drawcard – the annual Lamb and Potato Festival (which actually starts today) – although …
I enjoy exploring a place’s shadows, not because I have a particular fascination with morbidity, but because they tell me so much about life, which I dearly love. Shadows illuminate history in a way unlike any other, which is why I found myself standing outside Brisbane City Hall – beneath tall pillars blazoned with neon …