Ledge Point Ledge Point is about one and a half hours north of Perth and a few clicks south of Lancelin. The town evolved around the cray fishing industry and has some good beaches south of the township. It has… Continue Reading →
Shearing at Castlereagh A Poem by Banjo Paterson Paterson 1895 The bell is set a ringing, and the engine gives a toot, There’s five and thirty shearers here are shearing for the loot, So stir yourself, you penners up, and… Continue Reading →
Shearing Sheep My first real job after leaving school at 16 was working in shearing sheds as a rouseabout, hoping that I would quickly learn to shear and get a ‘pen’. A page out of my tattered old Tally book… Continue Reading →
Romance of the Swag The Romance of the Swag 1907 Henry Lawson ——————————————————— The Australian swag fashion is the easiest way in the world of carrying a load. I ought to know something about carrying loads: I’ve carried babies, which… Continue Reading →
Buying a Swag When buying a swag, I guess we start with, ‘how much do you want to spend?’ A basic swag can be purchased for a little over a hundred dollars. Buying a sway with all the bells and… Continue Reading →
Swags Swags in Australia today are a little different from what Henry Lawson described in his 1907 poem The Romance of the Swag. In Henry’s days, and before motorised transport, it contained the whole kit-and-kaboodle, clothes, bedding and belongings. The… Continue Reading →
Resources These are a list of resources and oddities or miscellaneous bits and pieces that some might find useful and interesting. Swags Swagology (my invention for the study of swags) can tell you quite a bit about a person. … Continue Reading →
Fishing in Australia Unsurprisingly and given my early origins in the Great Victoria Desert, fishing in Australia is a relatively new pursuit for me (the last 30 years at least:) However I’m trying to make up for lost time and… Continue Reading →
Nullarbor Plain I first crossed the Nullarbor Plain in 1974 with my family in an XW Falcon station wagon, towing a trailer behind the wagon. (That is me in the red tee shirt at 15 years old, Terri, my sister… Continue Reading →
Horseback Camping Unlike the other camping experiences on this site, horseback camping is very special. This is because transport is not some inanimate machine but a living, breathing, thinking animal. For those of you who have been fortunate enough to… Continue Reading →
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