All Summer Long

We spent two days walking the esplanade at Hervey Bay. We sized it up, uncovered its secrets. These are the things we learned: It is traditional for chippies to serve their sausages crumbed At Madigan’s Fish & Chips, calamari is…

Yeppoon was our gateway to the warm waters of Great Keppel Island. We crossed over by ferry from Rosslyn Bay Harbour, excited that we were finally on a boat trip, but unaware that we would spend the morning lost in…

We’ve been staying in Cairns, which is in close proximity to plenty of rainforest, coastline and the great barrier reef. Bite marks have formed constellations around Nicola’s ankles, left by the colony of invisible insects that crawl us in the…

Circulating ourselves around Sydney was easy enough from our base in Ultimo near Darling Harbour. Central Station was only a short walk along the Goodsline, an elevated walkway through the city and underground that follows the route of the long-neglected railway…

We exited the domestic terminal at Sydney and looked for the pickup location we had been given for our transfer. This whole thing had been an ordeal from the start: we’d gone with a cheap firm to save some money…

We can no longer distinguish between what’s lizard and what’s not. Burnt wood and debris at the side of the road in Australia appears as a mirage of snakes and spiders; all of the dangerous things we (I) desperately want…

“The elevator continued its impossibly slow ascent. Or at least I imagined it was ascent. There was no telling for sure: it was so slow that all sense of direction simply vanished. It could have been going down for all…