Clinging to the side of a coastal rock face, I’m trying to remember the last time I climbed anything that wasn’t a step-ladder. My arms are shaking, my fingertips clutching like a vice to whatever handholds I can make out in the wave-smoothed rocks. In my head, I am eight years old again climbing the runs of a WWII gun turret at East Point in Darwin. The other kids are ahead of me, and my bare dusty feet are slipping…
Geocaching
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Dean and I started geocaching around the middle of 2014. We were living in England and looking for something to make our long walks through the forest that much more interesting. After…
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It’s the best laid plans that often go astray, and our 100 Geocache Challenge was certainly one of them. I started this post as a draft the day I announced the…
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Dean and I have officially left the warm summer shores of Australia and will soon land in the middle of a frosty winter in England. We’ve got our walking boots, our…
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Geocaching was a term that I first heard way back in 2009 or 2010. I saw it in a movie called Splinterheads. The movie itself was nothing special, something of a hipster…
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I’ve always loved the local botanic gardens in Darwin. When I was a kid, our house was just around the corner, and during our regular family bike rides we would shortcut…
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As I mention pretty much all the time, I’ve been working really hard on being a better organiser with my photographs. One aspects of this is to get them uploaded, processed, and…