Well, it’s been a little while since I’ve posted (and I know it’s not the first time I’ve said that!) but it’s definitely time to catch you up. Life has been so busy in the past few weeks, almost everything else seems to have gotten totally out of hand. We have loads of washing to do, I have university assignments piling up in my calendar, clients who are emailing me wanting things that I should already have delivered. Luckily, none of…
When you travel, there will almost always be an instance where you don’t see a place at its best. For us, that place was definitely Fitzroy Falls. Dean and I stopped…
Minnamurra Rainforest rises around me like the jungles of prehistory. The birds call to each other in the distance as if they have never heard the harsh sounds of human evolution.…
Daylesford is a spot that Dean and I had been meaning to visit for a while now, an inland jaunt that had been quietly calling our names and encouraging a little…
The Dandenong Ranges Botanic Gardens is a funny spot, not in the least because most people know it by a different name: the National Rhododendron Gardens. This previous title seems to…
There’s a big house on a suburban street in Darwin. It’s old and creaky. The palm trees grow wild all around it, with stranger vines cloaking their trunks and creating their…
![The treeline [Dandenongs Autumn]](https://mapsandmandalas.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/arboretum-autumn-12-520x400.jpg)
Since we moved to Melbourne in April of last year, the place that I have most relished exploring and returning to has been the Dandenong Ranges. In fact heading up to…
