Birak is the Nyoongar season or summer.  The warmer weather is taking hold and the rains easing.  Hot easterly winds come in off the inland desert with the sea-cooled breezes from the southwest coming across in the afternoons – in…
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Do you ever lay awake at night with a head full of wonderful ideas and inspiration? I do and sometimes I’m amazed at what comes of these ideas.  This blog describes a few of these ideas coming to fruition, a…
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Kambarang is the Nyoongar (local indigenous people) second spring from October-November.  Nyoongar calendar includes six seasons.  Kambarang is known as a season of birth, a time of the year when the countryside is transformed with an abundance of coloured flowers…
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My first morning in Newman I woke just before dawn, waiting for enough light to go jogging. My hostess, Janice had said there was an exercise track just down the road from her place, which I was eager to check…
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