Gateway to the Outback Welcome to Bourke - Gateway to the Real Outback - the sign yells out from the side of the road. I hadn’t been aware I was in the fake outback, but yes, this is definitely the Outback made famous by poets, movies and popular culture. The REAL Outback Bourke is a … Continue reading Bourke – Snapshots of NSW
A few facts about Maitland Around 80,000 people live in the Maitland City Council area. The town was established in 1820 and is about 170 km north of Sydney via the M1 Motorway and the New England Highway. It’s in the middle of the “Hunter Valley”. Maitland is around 2 hours drive from the centre … Continue reading Maitland – Snapshots of NSW
The eastern coast of Australia has been on the wrong side of nature’s umbrella since the beginning of the year. The drought that had given us the tinder box which ignited into devastating bushfires in the Black Summer of 2019-20 was replaced by floods of near biblical proportions in March 2022. Communities in the very … Continue reading Floods and fires
