“Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country” I remember, back in the days when I was a regular at a church youth group, discussing how this bible verse had (like so many others) an application in non-religious terms .. how we all tend to ignore that around us because it is…
This week, our Travel pics series is J for Jets. And for Wednesday, it’s a bit of a cheat – today’s ‘Jet’ isn’t a jet any more – in fact, it never was. It’s a bus, made from the fuselage of a Douglas DC3. The DC3 was actually a propeller-driven aircraft, rather than a jet, but it…
Our Travel pics series this week has been I for Innisfail – and given that today is Sunday, it seems appropriate that we feature the Mother of Good Counsel church. As is often the case, this Catholic church sits on the highest point in the town, overlooking Innisfail. There was an existing Catholic church on this…
This week, our Travel pics series is I for Innisfail. For Saturday, we feature one of the last ‘original’ ‘Art Deco buildings in Innisfail (although even that’s a bit of a stretch) Allan Maruff House currently houses the Johnstone Shire Library – and commemorates Dr Maruff, an Indian-born medico, local councillor, and tea-plantation developer who moved…
This week, our Travel pics series is I for Innisfail. If the Water Tower (featured earlier this week) is one of the most visually striking symbols of Innisfail, then the Johnstone Shire Hall is the other. Built in the 1930s, using depression-era unemployed and costing a then mammoth £50,000 ($4.6 million in today’s money), the Shire…
I’m sorry – I couldn’t help but laugh out loud. It was just before Christmas last year, and I was in Innisfail taking photos of some Art Deco buildings when I saw these signs. I’d seen them before, when I worked in Innisfail as a young radio DJ more than 30 years before – and I couldn’t help…
This week, our Travel pics series is I for Innisfail. One of the problems of being a small town in the shadow of a larger, more famous regional centre is that you are .. well .. in the shadow. And Innisfail is in just that position. It’s a lovely town and it has a proud history…
“What do you mean this is the wrong Geraldton? The charts show this is Geraldton – what am I supposed to do with all this cargo?” In 1910, the town of Geraldton, in Queensland, changed its name to Innisfail – after a wayward cargo ship arrived carrying cargo for the port of Geraldton in Western…
This week, our Travel pics series is I for Innisfail. Innisfail’s a small township about an hour south of Cairns in Far North Queensland, which styles itself as “Australia’s Art Deco Capital”. In 1918, Innisfail was slammed by a cyclone that killed around a hundred people. So bad was the damage in Innisfail that fewer than…
Out on the patio we’d sit, And the humidity we’d breathe, We’d watch the lightning crack over canefields, Laugh and think, this is Australia. Our Travel Pic theme for this week, of course, is A for Australia – and GANGgajang’s lyrics from ‘Sounds of Then’ contain a line that is just so quintessentially Australian –…
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