There is a beauty that you can only find at the edges of things, where perspectives blend, on the brink.
Photo Essay
The Unbearable Lightness of Island Time
North Stradbroke Island is right around the corner, but it feels like it is a million miles away.
Dirk Hartog Island sneak peak
I’ve been lucky enough to spend the last week out on Dirk Hartog Island, land of the last sunset in Australia, filming our new series, Desert Visions.
Here are some of my favourite moments!
The Gibb River Road – A Travel Journal Pt 1: The East Kimberley
Time begins to dilate and contract out here at its own pace, woven into the ancient stone, into the steady patience of the trickling water that has sliced clean through two billion years of buried secrets. We play like children in the rainwater-filled wounds that the rainbow serpent has left cauterised in the earth…
The Dead Heart: The Madigan Line Pt 3: Desert Lessons
I spend another night in a stand of tall dead gidgee trees in the lee of the wind between 10m dunes. Their wan bare limbs reach up to the stars. The ground is getting redder as I travel further west. The wildflowers brighter and thicker. The northwestern Simpson Desert becomes gradually lusher, as deserts go, with every dune I cross now…
The Dead Heart: The Madigan Line Pt 2: Horse Latitudes
This part of the Simpson is the desert of the mind. Red dunes after red dunes. The roar of the V8 working under load climbing the dune, the inhalation sound of the intercooler sucking air through the snorkel, then the engine-braking groan going down the back of the dune and the upshift through the flat, corrugated valley…