DOWN UNDER ADVENTURE
PART 1: TICKET TO OZ
How my longing to trace descendants of my late mother's eldest brother, who emigrated to Western Australia with his wife and children in 1912, led me into a dream adventure.
PARTS 2 & 3: PERTH and FREMANTLE
Scenes I enjoyed in these two cities. To be expanded after my next visit!
PART 4: SEARCHING FOR MUNDIWINDI
.... let that page speak for itself.
PART 5: TO MARBLE BAR AND BEYOND
A journey up to Marble Bar (hottest place in Australia when it really gets going) and down the west coast of WA back to Perth.
A willy-willy, diamond mine, gold mine, overnight on a cattle station, School of the Air, aboriginal petroglyphs, stromatolites, it's all there - and more.
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Ongoing. Beautiful carvings of bench ends in East Anglian churches as I discover them in my wanderings, and a few Green Men encountered.
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CONTACT PAGE
"red earth woman". So much lies behind that phrase. But of that, more later..... Meanwhile WELCOME Have a wander THE CALL OF PLACE My roots are coiled within - they move wherever I may move and anchor where I stay so that I call a two night stop my home, and am content. Each place I visit and learn to make its song my own. Then, with the leaving time, appears an ache as if I’m cast adrift from somewhere that has held me close for years. The land cries “do not go” but gives me tokens that I hold against the day that, just perhaps, I may return.
Comments, especially if you have been there, done that, would be received with interest.
The site is in its infancy but is launched because I am impatient. Hopefully, it will develop.
Copyright Ivy Collins 2009
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