LIFE ON THE PLATEAU

Sunday morning reflections on Camp Creek. In these quiet moments the world feels absolutely perfect, and perfectly in balance.

Tucked away amongst the gorges and the waterfalls, amongst the trees and the stars, there is something intangible out here, something...

Here's to the things we've lost, all the things we've still got, and the good things we'll find on the other side. Little Mertens at last...

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow... and then...

Little Mertens ain't so little at the minute. :)

Maybe I spoke too soon. 258mm in 4 days. Ex tropical cyclone Esther delivered!

Book of the day: How To Survive A Flood.

An afternoon paddle on Camp Creek. Still hard to believe this was nothing more than a small waterhole a month ago - and then a raging...

Anybody got a big ladder?? Happy to report the bird is back in the air! :)

Something a little different. Just something that caught my eye and made me smile. Simple morning reflections. Very zen.

Thank you Cyclone Blake. So good to see the waterfalls flowing again after such a dry Dry season. That water, as it rushes downstream,...

This was never going to end well. Gaz put me up to it...

The cyclone delivered! 223mm of rain in less than 48hrs!! That's almost as much as October and November combined. The Wet season has...

This is Mitchell after 212mm in December. With a cyclone off the coast at the moment and weather warnings for the Mitchell Plateau there...

Look what Santa dropped off for Christmas...

We're getting afternoon storms most days, usually around 4 o'clock. They last for about half an hour and drop anywhere between 10 & 30mm...

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by,...

Yep, she flows! Pretty amazing to see the creeks, rivers and waterfalls coming back to life after 48mm of rain last week. You've got no...

Pretty happy with the new shower facilities at work. Got the water switched on yesterday.

I think if I was God I would play with the clouds all day as well. When nature does its thing there's no need for fancy photography -...