Out the back with Jack…
The stories behind the images…
Travel tales and adventures out & about with Jack
Time to get toasty…
It was an unusual stormy Friday night after a too long hot summer, and I’d just pulled a blanket out of the cupboard, settled on the couch with my laptop for the next few hours.
Pretty apt for a spookily wild night, perfect for watching while snuggled under one of my fav camping blankets, with my little camp lights out ready in case the power went out.
In the moment…
Driving through a timeless landscape, half expecting a wagon to roll through the thick white grasses, picking its way around the scattered stands of trees.
Up ahead in the distance, a catch a glimpse of a fox’s tail disappearing into the long grass. My first ever sighting of a fox.
Years later, finally….
Time to go home…
I love being on the road.
Exploring country roads & dirt tracks, looking for my kind of treasure in those big wide open spaces.
I like getting home too.
Back out the back…
Sketchy snake tracks in front of me on the dusty trail; they’re just little snakes, Bob said with a cheeky grin and a twinkling eye. Bob’s the caretaker out there, more about him next time ;)
‘Rubbish’, I replied, and we agreed to disagree on the size of the snakes that left those tracks… those many many tracks.
I made up a little song to sing as I walked, hoping to scare the snakes well away from my path.
A step back in time…
Subtle hints of sandalwood drifted on the air, there’s nothing musty about this space…
Piano chords float across the room, joined by a sweetly singing violin, with the warm tenor notes of a cello wrapping around the music…
The lighting dims and lifts with the music… a symphony of sound and light…
I could stay in this library all night… pick a book and curl up on a stair, and just stay in here…
The beach…
Wandering out to the water’s edge in my jandals (thongs if you’re Australian, flip flops if you’re from anywhere else except NZ) I stepped carefully, half expecting to fall on my butt at any time…
Tis the season…
Many of us were anticipating hitting the road and raced around getting vehicles serviced and tyres and wheels checked, and a few last minute tweaks to recreational vehicles, and some last minute urgent fixes.
Black Friday…cha ching!
This year I’ve replaced my several years old budget friendly Kings solar blanket with a slightly bigger but hopefully much better performing portable solar panel setup from a newer brand, Kickass, to keep that bigger fridge running, the drone, camera batteries and my laptop charged while camped on the beach and beyond…