Category: Australia
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A to Z Challenge: Yacka Cemetery
Today’s episode of the A to Z Challenge comes to you from the tiny mid northern South Australian town of Yacka. Well, Yacka Cemetery in partcular. This small town, with it’s 150 people, is one I drove past on a few occasions so I got to the know the main road fairly well. Once, while…
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A to Z Challenge: Victor Harbor
This week’s edition of the A to Z Challenge comes from the popular South Australian tourist spot of Victor Harbor. Unusually, for Australian words, this habour is spelt without the u in it. Apparently, this is not due to any American influence but at archaic English spelling. Anyway, this is a town I know well.…
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A to Z Challenge: Upper Sturt
Today’s edition of the A to Z Challenge comes to you from the bushland area area of Upper Sturt. This southern suburb of Adelaide is nestled in to the Adelaide Hills and next door to Belair National Park (the first national park in South Australia and the second in Australia, with Sydney’s Royal National Park…
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A to Z Challenge: Tarcowie
Today’s edition of the A to Z Challenge comes from a tiny South Australian (yes, still there) town called Tarcowie. This town is located in the state’s mid north and, like Koolunga, Innes National Park, and Balaklava, it’s a place I got to know because of an environmental job I once had. Tarcowie is an…
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A to Z Challenge: Scott Creek
Today’s episode of the A to Z Challenge is brought to you by the letter S. S for Scott Creek Conservation Park in South Australia. Back in 2000, I was in the midst of completing my Honours degree research on the Southern Brown Bandicoot. As there was a group of them living within this park,…
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A to Z Challenge: Raukkan
Today’s episode of the A to Z Challenge is located in a very small town called Raukkan. This town is very close to Narrung, a beautiful, but occasionally creepy, town that I used to live in. Raukkan is an important community to the local Aboriginal people, with it considered the heartland of the Ngarrindjeri country.…
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A to Z Challenge: Quorn
Today’s episode of the A to Z Challenge is brought to you by the letter Q. That is, Q for Ouorn (pronounced corn). No, not the meat substitute for vegetarians and vegans but the small town in South Australia. This self- proclaimed capital of the Flinders Ranges is home to many interesting sites of interest.…
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A to Z Challenge: Point Turton
Today’s episode of the A to Z Challenge is in South Australia (again :D). Specifically, Point Turton. Just like Innes National Park, which I’ve written about in a previous blog, this beachside town in on the York Peninsula. One of my oldest friends has a little shack right on the beach. Well, her parents do…
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A to Z Challenge: Orroroo
Today’s episode of the A to Z Challenge is in the South Australian town of Orroroo (Or – ro – roo), in the state’s mid north. This small town of about 600 people, is one that I have a couple of memories of. One, I briefly remember driving through this town on the way to…