To 'Go Bush'

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My house
My waratah
My cockatoos
My garden jungle
My garden flora
My lupins
My resident blue tongues
‎⁨Vulkathunha-Gammon Ranges
Flinders Ranges
‎⁨Beowa National Park⁩ (hunting giant lizards)
Deua National Park⁩
Victoria-NSW border beach
Flinders Ranges
Brumbies (wild horses) Barrington National Park

View from tent door Northern Territory 2018
Still on the dirt roads 2018
Still on the dirt roads 2019
The year of lock down, Botany Bay
...click on image for good weather..
Started work on my next book 2020 with a view of the docks

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