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A Ghost Story

Must tell you about my experience in Coolangatta – the convicts prison converted into a winery near Nowra. During my consulting days I used to stay overnight in this beautiful and picturesque place....

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Magaliesberg – Just off the Witwatersrand!

Jessica’s wedding provided the incentive to visit the Magaliesberg after an absence of 45 years. The wedding venue was at De Hoek – just off the Magaliesburg – Krugersdorp Road. The Melbournian Green...

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Namibia 2016

  We trekked down from Ghanzi (Botswana) to Hobas on the edge of the Fish River Canyon – a 10 hour drive (next time – if ever – will plan this thing better!!) But – a never to be forgotten experience –...

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Central Kalahari

Little did we realise what we were getting ourselves into! We were advised in Maun that the road to Sunday Pan was a cinch. “No worries mate” (the local Botswanian advised us in perfect ‘strine’ –...

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Maghoto –“Camel Thorn Tree”

Bless you Loxodanta Africana (Elephants)! We came to visit you in your paradise. And what a paradise it was! Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of...

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“With Cat-Like Tread”

As with the policemen in the Pirates of Penzance: “With Cat-Like Tread Upon our prey we steal In silence dread Our cautious way we feel No sound at all We never speak a word A fly’s foot-fall Would be...

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Hyenas and Wild Dogs

The risk manager speaks. On our first night in Maghoto - I "wisely" decided to rather sleep on the camp bed just outside the door of the tent which was fully occupied by Dedrie and Hilda, whereas the...

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The B-Double

We set out from Townsville along the Bruce Highway. Another one of those North Queensland days, hot, humid but dry as the car bit into the asphalt along the narrow single carriageway. The driver...

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Bullying!

Bullying – much is occupying our media at the moment regarding this ‘ever increasing in intensity’ social phenomena. My ex-Nababeepian friends have recently touched on this not so delicate subject....

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Black Rock – Coastal Walk

Our city has much to offer – all within easy reach. Discovered Black Rock again after visiting my sister Marge in the ’80s. The walks along Port Phillip Bay are so well preserved and the revegetation...

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“The Briars”

  Don the ‘puffer jackets’, an essential requirement for heading outdoors this time of the year and head out to “The Briars” in Mt. Martha on the Mornington Peninsula! This is what Dedrie and I did...

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Early Spring!

Blossoms out during the first week in August! Is this a climate change phenomenon, an El Nino effect or the very dry Winter we have just had? Stradbroke Park – a favourite oval near our house in Kew....

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Family time & time with old friends!

   

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Mikumi National Park – Tanzania

After a full day’s driving from Dar-es-Salaam, arriving at the main gate at about 10 pm, we raised the ranger at the main gate who booked us into a lodge for the night. Thankfully we had at that stage...

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Pretty Rough to be a herbivore in Arusha!

Our last day’s visit with Hilda to Arusha National Park made us thankful that we were shielded all round by the body of the Rav 4WD. We had just got out of the car to view the Flamingoes and were...

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Interbeing

  Defining, describing, modelling, deciphering – whatever means deployed Should fail – without tools, performance standards, where do we start? Programmed to add, subtract, linearise and build with...

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Monbulk

As Spring approaches rapidly, we decided to visit friends at Monbulk and had a most delightful day. The chooks, alpacas, border collies), magpies, blackbirds, cockies, doves, ducks put on a special...

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ALEXANDER – A Highveld Farm in the Old Transvaal

I Googled the name of my cousin Stephanus Venter, or ‘Fanie’ as we knew him and the name of our family farm ‘Alexander’. I had been trying to contact him on a mobile number that I had for him – this...

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Destruction of my birthplace

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it – if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers...

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Spion Kopje

A recent visit to the Victorian High Country yielded a most interesting and unexpected surprise! While walking around Lake Guy near Bogong Village I came across a sign which read “Spion Kopje”, with an...

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