Wombat Rescue
What sounded pretty straight forward in the Workaway listing turned out to be anything but. Not in a bad way, just in a very interesting, unusual and intriguing way. Where to be begin? Mark and Jody drove me all the way to the farm/rescue center. It is a large house sitting on 110 acres and […]
The bravery of caring
Lyn Chalmers started Locky’s Legacy wildlife shelter 16 years ago. It is named after a little Brushtail possum who passed away overnight unexpectedly in his sleep. Locky’s Legacy is located approximately 10km north of Pakenham, Australia and covers approximately 5.9 hectares of hilly, native bushland with a dam and a creek running through the end of […]
Echuca Reflections
Kookaburras and cockatoos are setting the background track this evening. A storm rolled in after I got back to the Discovery Holiday park. I decided to not go back to town for dinner as planned. I am feeling sort of lost between the layers. Steamboat in Echuca I could fly to somewhere outside of Australia […]
Redirect from the Universe
Passport missing?!?! All packed up and ready to leave the Ashbolt Farm, I went to do the regular visual check of passport and vital documents.Standard operating procedure, I do it every time I leave a place. This time it is not standard; I can’t find the passport or the passport holder with the Nexus Card […]
How bizarre, how bizarre
I want to try to capture how bazar this workaway gig has been. I’m going to try to tell it backwards to not lose the oddness of today. At dinner last night, I asked what A would like done today. She was unclear and provided nothing specific for me to work from. When I got […]
A 20 foot mural is bigger than a rock
What an amazing experience!
PetTeet Park
Arriving at the airport in Perth, the workaway host gave me instructions for how to meet him outside, telling me to simply look for the bright red Ut (pronounced yoot). Easy enough if you know what a Ute is. When I asked a nearby traveler, they made the obvious statement – you aren’t from here, […]