Dining In The Outback Supermarket, Australian Traveller, February/March 2010

It's grubs for dinner and honey ants for dessert as Ellen Hill samples her way through the Alice Springs Desert Park, a place where the hidden secrets of bush tucker and outback medicine are within easy reach. If only you knew where to look . .
 

Ebb and Flow of the Mighty Hawkesbury, Blue Mountains Life, April-May 2009

A soulful journey down the Hawkesbury River with Ted Books, whose famous colonial ancestors eventually learned they could not tame. 

THE last tendrils of fog swirl up to meet the golden rays of a weak winter sun, mirrored on the still surface of the water.
The occasional jumping fish makes a quiet “blip’’ noise. Birds twitter in the trees and skate across the gentle ripples before settling on the surface to float aimlessly with tide.
This is Ted Books’ favourite time of day to cruise the Windsor... 

The Don

Australia's best loved gardener reveals his hidden talents and his love of the Hawkesbury, Blue Mountains Life, June-July 2008 

BUDGERIGAR breeder, respected lecturer, author on genetics, successful horse breeder and train theologian. There’s a lot that many avid Don Burke fans don’t know about him.

His great love of the Hawkesbury, where he owns a stud farm, might be another.

The 60-year-old television personality is a many-faceted character. In person, he’s exactly the same as his on-screen... 

My Country, Literary Traveler, October 2008

An ode to the Australian outback and celebration of Dorothea Mackellar and one of Australia's most loved and well known poems. 

“I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains, of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains…’’
Do I?
I live in Australia and there is no better country in which to reside, with its freedoms, its wealth, opportunities and safety.
But now I find myself in its red centre, the scorched ochre coloured deserts that stretch into the horizon’s... 

Driving Down Memory Lane, Australian Traveller, February/March 2009

A dusty spin into the past winds up in the fascinating National Road Transport Hall of Fame in Alice Springs. 

Ships of Uluru: An Uncommon Way to Tour the Australian Outback, Travel Post Monthly, October 2008

A quirky tale outlining the experience of riding a camel at Uluru (Ayres Rock). 

Hear Ulysses roar through Penrith, Penrith Press, March 2009

Almost hear the roar of the engines, feel the buzz and see the chrome glint in the sun with this descriptive account of the Ulysses parade through Penrith. 

Ballooning in the Aussie Outback, RovingEye 2008 Expose Your World competition winning entry, travel story category

BEING caught between the cusp of a new day and the last flickers of night is like witnessing two of nature’s most intimate acts _ birth and death. Secret and mysterious, only a select few are privy to its glory.

Today, we are that select few, a group of strangers pressed together in a wicker basket like sardines in a can, suspended 1000ft above the ground smack bang in the centre of...