Like the wildflowers: Eremophila Murchison Rose Detail of the plant above Birds’-beak Hakea Detail of the flowers of the Hakea And the animals: The big reds around Kalbarri were sometimes brilliantly red And the birds: Where galahs mow the lawn … Continue reading
So, the Kalbarri coastline was pretty spectacular, but the true glory of the area is further up the Murchison River: into the river gorges. We went for many walks and rambles and scrambles… A Hans Heysen painting? No, maybe more … Continue reading
Kalbarri had still more to offer us than I mentioned in yesterday’s post. Spectacular walks along the coast and into coastal gorges and beaches…like these: Mushroom Rock I know this looks as if someone dripped vanilla ice cream on reddish … Continue reading
The Murchison River is supposedly 850 kms long (510 miles), the second largest river in Australia after the Murray-Darling. I say supposedly, because…well, in common with many Australian rivers, much of it is dry riverbed more often than not. The … Continue reading
If you don’t like blogs about places, then proceed no further. I’m blogging about our three week trip into the central districts of a state that is bigger than Texas, New Zealand, Japan and the British Isles combined, plus some. … Continue reading
Some of you will remember a village called Creed (if I remember correctly) in the first book of the Isles of Glory. The entire book was set on a sand spit called Gorthan Spit, and the village was built of … Continue reading
The view from our caravan. Well, the view we had yesterday, anyway. Today it’s raining. And blowing a gale. Which makes it a writing day… Kalbarri … Continue reading
Sometimes lovely things happen to writers, and this is one of them: when you find out that what you have written has inspired the creation of another art form. Some of you may remember Havenstar, and the tainting that occurred … Continue reading
Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, August 26, 1765 Thieftaker is historical fantasy, set in Boston before the American Revolution… Ethan Kaille, a thieftaker of some notoriety, and a conjurer of some skill, is hired by a murdered girl’s father to … Continue reading
No, nothing so prosaic as a dog or a cat of some fish in a tank. Last night I spent much time chasing a tree frog around my study, and through the forest of wires and cords under the desk, … Continue reading
