That is the title of the latest story I’ve written for On The Road magazine, spring 2022 edition. The story looks at how silo art has taken off in Australia, with more than 50 once drab and neglected concrete silos and other structures, now sporting a new coat of paint, which in the process has… Read More How a Coat of Paint can Refresh a Town
It’s bound to happen at some stage on a holiday, those days where it’s just rainy, miserable and not made for the usual outdoor caravanning lifestyle we want to enjoy. You expect it of course during winter, but with the La Nina weather system set to hang around for a while, it pays to have… Read More When the Rain Sets in
It’s meant to be spring now and we are well into the first month but thanks to the La Nina weather event, the third in a row, the experts tell us that Australia’s east coast is in for another wet, and cool spring and summer. Here in South Australia we are feeling the effects too… Read More Spring is Coming…Eventually
Underground Art is a term used for art that operates outside of conventional norms including street art. Recently though, I stumbled upon a literal use of the term in the mid north town of Crystal Brook in South Australia. A subway going beneath the rail line caught my attention and I wondered if there might… Read More Underground Art in Crystal Brook
I’m always amazed to find as we travel around the country, how many super talented people there are in all parts of Australia, and it makes me think that their work should be seen by a bigger audience than just those of us who are passing through, and were lucky enough to find it. Recently… Read More Arty Rural Communities in SA
Sadly the time is coming when the whales that make their way to the South Australian coast will soon be returning to the Antarctic waters. Victor Harbor, Port Elliot, and Middleton on the Fleurieu Peninsula are lucky to have these giant visitors return year after year, to the warmer and sheltered waters that become a… Read More Whale Watching Season 2022
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