The Burrowing Bee of Mundatharrda

The Burrowing Bee of Mundatharrda

After we’d paid our camping fees to the Kennedy Range NP camp host Brett, he handed me a large insect, curled up dead in a small ball, around the size of a man’s thumb. ‘This is what we’re famous for.’ I looked back at the incredible mountain range –...
Watarrka National Park

Watarrka National Park

After the solitude of the Great Central Road, Yulara was a shock. I’ve been reading on theme while in the NT and re-read Tracks by Robyn Davidson. She visited Uluru with her camels in the late 1970s and described: … the ever-increasing number of Australia...
Visiting an icon

Visiting an icon

I found it a strange experience to visit a place so iconic as Uluru. To have seen endless photos and video images of the rock in all its immensity, and to even wonder if having it seen it so many times, whether in fact it was even necessary to visit? We each,...
The Goldfields – Just what it says on the tin?

The Goldfields – Just what it says on the tin?

There seem to be three options for naming the regions of WA. The purely geographical – South West, Mid West. Then there is the more lyrical – Pilbara, Kimberley. And then there is the Wheatbelt and the Goldfields – two very descriptive names for the dominant...