Its Thursday 21st April 2011 and its been raining for three days, our back garden has had 24cm, 23cm and 19cm, Harley tells me there has been more further north at Cooroy. Great as Cooroy is close to where we are about to go canoeing and camping for five days backwoods style, unsupported with constant rain, on top of all … Continue reading →
The link these people had to the rest of the world was a single strand of steel wire and the sound of the Morse code clacker. This wire was the connection between Europe and Australia by overland telegraph to Singapore and then cable from there to Darwin.
Continue reading →The further we went west from Wagga Wagga we drove the straighter roads got, until they became very long and flat plains, these plains are irrigated by the Murrumbidgee river as it runs from the Snowy mountains, passed our city of Canberra and joins with the Murray River. I have been told that Murrumbidgee means “big water” in the Wiradjuri language, … Continue reading →
