Life from the top of the 4-wheel-drive and "swag" tents out in the bush, helping the Ngalia Aboriginal mob document a sacred part of their living history. It's a grand view, from any angle. Miles and miles of red dirt and open sky an…
It's a great day to listen to Motorhead and Maps on Main Street !!!! This is what happens when I remember to turn my cell phone on and it's so sunny I can barely see and it's the SECOND time in a day I've walked the 2 miles r/t to t…
At 77, Brian Champion has lived in two worlds. Until he was 7 or 8, he lived with his parents — Kaprun people on Kaprun land. Their ancestors lived in their country (land) for ages. Not too long ago, DNA from a single lock of hair confirmed that…
Saeed has been in Kalgoorlie seeking a professional mining job for a week. He's got two cooking jobs in the meantime, after looking for work in 50 shops. I showed him his profile on this blog. "I was not aware of my effort until I read ab…
Like every one of the hundreds of hostels I've been to in my life, there's a mish mash of people in them, from all walks of life, doing all sorts of things. That's what I love about hostels. It's like a huge centrifuge: You don'…
Driving the Golden Pipeline heritage trail 600KM from Perth to Kalgoorlie, you go by a lot of small typically western Aussie towns. In this one, there were two automobiles that "didn't make it," as my mom says when there's roadki…
I'm in Australia, helping to preserve three Aboriginal languages and tell the story of three mobs (tribes). Am I REALLY learning life, culture and other stories from the last fluent Ngalia speaker on earth? The last fluent Kaalamaya speaker O…
There is a lot of gold mining in western Australia. That's why Kalgoorlie is here. Workers pull 800,000 ounces of gold a year out of the Super Pit, the largest open pit gold mine in Australia, which will eventually stretch 3.6 kilometres long,…
One guess :-) ... I took this last evening on our way to meet the Tjupan mob. We were early enough that we stopped at the Kalgoorlie golf course, which is apparently a mecca for roos here. Two golfers were finishing up and walked off but the roo…
