Riding in the rain 100 metres at a time – Day 2 (Monday 20 April)
Elizabeth Last night I feared I maybe really couldn’t do this. Well, couldn’t do the wild camping – that particularly worried me. But here I am. Not wild camping as in…
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Riding Alone (Day 1: Scone to Gundy, Australia)
Here I am – sitting cross-legged in my tent, the darkness filled with the glow of the computer screen. I am camped in an open-sided shed at the Gundy Showground…
Weeping for What Will Come and What Will Stay Behind
The tick-tock of time passing is getting very loud. Today is my Going Away Party. As I write I await the first of my guests. I feel anxious, nervous, excited…
I Am Woman
Need this as an mp3 to help me over mountains, into headwinds, and on days that are just tough.
Naked Liberation at No 42 Lady Bay Beach – 22 February 2015
Until recently I was dreading Lady Bay. It is the second of, I think, three ‘clothing optional’ beaches in Sydney (this one granted that status in 1976). The first in…
You May Have Your Mansion But the Beach is There for All – No 41, Kutti (1 February 2015)
Kutti Beach is in Vaucluse, long the most affluent of Sydney suburbs and still in the top five. Prior to European colonisation the area was home to the Birrabirragal clan…
A Riot of Kookaburras and Cerulean Seas – No 40 Jibbon (4 January 2015)
The strange summer continues as I’ve had to skip another (and hopefully the last) of the Hawkesbury beaches which can only be reached from the water. I will visit number…
Is this heaven? No, it’s Bundeena – No 38 Horderns (21 December 2014)
This summer’s beaches have created challenges. I should have begun with No 35 Gunyah (Brooklyn) – up on the Hawkesbury – but it can only be reached from the water…
I Think You Must Leave Australia to Become Fully Australian – No 36 Gunyah (Bundeena) 23 November
It’s late November and this is only the first beach of the summer. I’ve been delayed by the hopes of sticking to my rule of visiting the beaches in strictly…
No 34: Great Mackerel – 22 June 2014
On Friday I woke to a radio program about ceremonies people create for themselves. A caller described a women’s winter solstice ceremony she had been conducting for some years. The…