The Ships’ Graveyard lies outside Port Phillip Heads, starting east of Fisherman’s Beach in Torquay and extending through to Point Lonsdale. The Outer Heads Area of the Ships Graveyard is what’s known as an ‘undocumented area’. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, it was common practice to set discarded ships out past […]
While you’re working, you’re in a routine. You leave your home every day and travel to your workplace. It’s not just about earning money. Importantly, without even thinking about it, you are socialising. When it’s been your life since leaving school – for 52 years in my case – you take it all for granted.
In 1996, while working as an exploration geologist for Western Mining Corporation, I was sent to the remote Kyzylkum Desert in western Uzbekistan to report on various gold projects. This area is near to the Aral Sea, once a large freshwater lake with a thriving fishing industry, but now a dried-out dustbowl with a salt
Stuck indoors for so much of 2020, I was one of many to turn my attention to a ‘lockdown project’ to keep me busy at home. So back in March 2020 – when we were full of concern about COVID-19 and what the future held in store – I took delivery of a Rover 3500
After our inaugural meeting in the Bunyip Hall back in 2018, Older Men: New Ideas (OM:NI) men’s discussion groups, was described as “a group with an unusual name” by a local newspaper. It’s a wonder that so many men turned up on that frosty, foggy June morning. Some of the men were known to each
