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Saturdays at Salamanca

24. November 2009

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Saturdays at Salamanca

SATURDAYS AT SALAMANCA Place are crowded and busy... locals rub shoulders with visitors as they crowd the alleys of Salamanca Market to find local food, local arts and crafts, photography, seeds, fresh fruit and vegetables, soft and sweet Bruny Island fudge, Gillespie's fizzy ginger beer...

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Local a selling point at Evandale

24. November 2009

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Local a selling point at Evandale

FOOD GROWN LOCALLYseems to be something of a specialty at Evandale Market. A recent visit disclosed sign after sign on a number of stalls advertising the localism of fresh vegetables, herbs and fruit...

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Solitary, long ago

28. September 2009

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Solitary, long ago

Story & photos: Russ Grayson IT’S PERVERSE, REALLY. To walk  these mountains you start by descending rather than climbing. The reason is that the Blue Mountains do not rise from a plain to culminate in high ridges and peaks. They are a plateau formed when the earth here uplifted millions of years ago. The Blue Mountains are [...]

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Less a town than a landscape

22. September 2009

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Less a town than a landscape

It's not the town, its the landscape it is set in that gives the Byron region its spectacular character. This I was taught by a sea eagle and by quietness as I gazed over coast and ocean to a northern horizon bounded by mountains...

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City in memory

29. December 2008

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City in memory

We inhabit our own geographies... geographies formed by patterns of movement from home to work, from home to our recreational haunts or to the homes of friends. But geographies remembered and real do not always accord...

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Small town off the highway

28. December 2008

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Small town off the highway

Wauchope, a minor country town off the highway.

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Vignettes of Launceston

9. March 2008

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Vignettes of Launceston

Vignettes of Launceston, a small city on a wide muddy river where the past collides with the future and distant views trigger memories...

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Hidden path to a cove’s history

27. August 2007

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Hidden path to a cove’s history

The old shacks at Crater Cove are a reminder of the days when life was somehow simpler and our needs fewer. They housed an eclectic group of people...

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Byron Bay — discovered and rediscovered

13. September 2006

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Byron Bay — discovered and rediscovered

The first time I saw it, the North Coast lay inspiring and revealed from my vantage point part way down a steep, winding road that took me to the coastal plain below...

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The Byron Bay blues

3. August 2006

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The Byron Bay blues

Too many too often — that's what some say about tourists in the idyllic — or maybe not-so-idyllic — Byron Bay...

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