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Category Archives: travel

A bush in the hand: the Heidelberg hegemony

We’re not in Kansas!, said Dorothy to Toto.
And we’re not in NSW or SA or Victoria either, Toto.
We’re somewhere over the rainbow …
What did eventually penetrate my poor head as we wandered around Carnarvon Gorge in central Queensland was that I might have been lost on a parallel planet. It was all eerily familiar – [...]

Carnarvon Gorge: Culture Mulcher does Nature

You’ve seen them, you’ve been there: The Great Barrier Reef and the cliffs over the Great Australian Bight, Franklin River and Cradle Mountain, the Bungle Bungles and Lake Mungo, Uluru and the SydOpHo – but have you heard of Carnarvon Gorge?
Last week we took Joni Mitchell’s advice, and got ourselves back to the garden. We [...]