Last night, I went to a fundraiser for St Canice’s sister parish in Railaco in East Timor at the North Bondi Surf Lifesaving Club. It’s unusual to come away from a fundraiser elated, and not with that feeling of “what was I doing there?” And it wasn’t just the excellent roast beef grain-fed for sixty …
News of the death of Libyan dictator Gaddafi has stopped my morning. I visited Libya twice in the past four years and now look forward to returning again. Tragically, Jamal, the owner of the travel company, who personally drove me to Leptis Magna on my second visit, was killed by a stray bullet in Green …
I visited the Hunza Valley “where mountains meet” in the Northern Areas of Pakistan when I was working in South Asia 1985. I’m giving very serious thought to a return visit in 2012, fanned on by similar desires of Ken Turner and Pam. The thought is sufficient reason to dust off my story of …
Click here to read Michael’s story of his five days with Juanita and Jan at the Lizard Island Island Lodge set in the wilderness of a ten square kilometre island right on the Great Barrier Reef. Please allow time for the large file to open. View this Picasa Album as a Slideshow, or double click …
You simply won’t believe the day we had yesterday! Jumping off the back of the dive-boat into the sea as 26 year-old Captain Matt backed up to get us as close as possible without the boat hitting the reef, I had visions of ending up ’20,000 Leagues Under the Sea”. Only today do I learn …