- Cronulla Sunrise Place: Cronulla Where: Sydney Spring in Sydney… and a long weekend to boot. With the start of daylight saving it makes it just a little bit easier to get out of bed early in the morning. This morning’s sunrise set a beautiful golden sky. Plenty of surfers in the water and people doing laps in the rockpools.
- Darwin Place: Darwin Where: Northern Territory A short work trip took me to Darwin in September 2019. The flight was longer than the actual workshop we hosted – and given the meeting was on a Friday, I took the opportunity to hang around and see Darwin. I had never been there before and this trip ticks off the final capital city in Australia for me. After work, I walked around town and took in the Waterfront area where there is a swimming pool surrounded by sand. I’ve been assured they’ve made it crocodile safe, considering the Harbour is teaming with […]
- Little Willow Farmstay Place: Little Willow Farmstay Where: Gangbanang NSW Drive for about two hours west of Sydney and you’ll come to a little place called Kanimbla Valley, just across the river from the more famous Megalong Valley. Here you’ll find the Little Willow Farm Stay. We found it on Airbnb, and booked in a weekend away for a birthday celebration with some friends. The farm stay is in a beautiful location, where you can only see a few lights out on the horizon of a night time – and a million stars up above. The accomodation itself is nestled […]
- Vivid Sydney Place: Sydney Where: Sydney It’s become a tradition – trekking into the city on a cold wintery night, carrying all the camera gear and tripod, battling crowds and trying to find a good spot for photos. This year was no different! Just a few spots for snaps this year.
- Byron Bay Place: Byron Bay Where: New South Wales Byron Bay is renowned for its long beaches, long surf breaks and… well, let’s face it. Backpackers, hippies and pot. We took a long weekend away here in February 2019. To break up the extraordinarily long drive (made even longer by the never ending roadworks on the Pacific Highway), we stopped in Coffs Harbour for a night. Up early in the morning, it was down to the Coffs Jetty for sunrise. Then, like a John Denver song, it was on the road again heading north towards Byron Bay and our Air […]
- Sydney Storm Place: Sydney Harbour Where: Sydney They had been warning about the potential for severe storms for a couple of days. Throughout the day, the humidity was building, along with the heat. You could feel the storm brewing. It was amazing it rolling in from the north-west of Sydney, big and dark on the horizon, and with lightning flashing across the sky. The skies opened up and we rode out the worst of it while sheltering in the car.
- Canberra and Snowy Mountains Place: Canberra, Snowy Mountains Where: ACT, New South Wales We rolled into Canberra late on Friday afternoon and after a quick cocktail, ventured over to ‘Nightfest’ which is essentially Floriade under lights. I’m not really one for things like flower displays but the nice lights always get me – but it ain’t quite Vivid. Next day, we ventured down the Monaro to the Snowy Mountains, heading to Perisher, Crackenback and Jindabyne for the long weekend.
- Sydney Sunset Place: Dudley Page Reserve Where: Sydney Dudley Page Reserve is a park perched high on the hilltop in Sydney’s eastern suburbs overlooking Sydney Harbour. It presents an iconic Sydney scene, looking straight down the harbour at the Opera House, Bridge and city skyline. The perfect place to take in a colourful sunset like this.
- Mudgee Place: Mudgee Where: New South Wales Camping? In winter? You’ve got to be kidding me. Unless your tent comes with a bed, shower, bath, flushing toilet, wood fire, fridge… This is how you do camping – or to be more precise, glamping. We stayed at Sierra Escapes, about a 20 minute drive out of Mudgee. It’s in the middle of nowhere and due to the current drought, it’s a barren moonscape vista. But being so far away from everything means the stars shone bright. In fact, bright enough to see the Milky Way with the naked eye. We savoured […]