Walking in the Angophora forest.

At the beginning of winter, on the weekend called Queen’s Birthday Weekend in Australia, we enjoyed the company of brothers and sisters and undertook a small bushwalk on the New South Wales central coast just north of Sydney. Twisted, gnarly Angophora costata trees are found in abundance in this area, rising above thick undergrowth, lifting…

Surviving. SOS March 18. 2023.

Here in the Central Tablelands of NSW, we don’t need the Bureau of Meteorology to tell us La Niña is over. This fact has been apparent for some time as we haven’t received decent rain since January 22. Our total for February was 7.4 mm and there has been no rain in March. At the…