Category: Movement
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The Martian Embassy

A 10-year-old’s eerie encounter near a crashed UFO site turns out to be the fascinating story of the Australian Shine Dome.
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Alley art.

Location: ///fountain.vouchers.accompanying28°38.57292’S, 153°36.85746’E Amongst the scrambled alley artTwo chairs poach place from space.
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The long drive home

After surviving a bumpy road trip filled with potholes and over salted chips, it’s time to tackle the mountain of laundry and plot the next adventure. A brief pause to digest the journey, then it’s full speed ahead to plan the next escapade – Japan!
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Final day at Byron Bay

Last day in Byron Bay before following the temperature gradient south to Canberra where the Maximus Celsius has been around number nine. A frosty reception awaits. And here is a Koan: A student asked Dongshan, “When cold and heat come, how can we avoid them?” Dongshan said, “Why don’t you go to the place where…
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Cafe culture

Enjoying a meal at the picturesque Byron Bay General Store, I delve into a delicious acaci bowl while engrossed in a book on monistic idealism and quantum mechanics, scored from a remote second-hand bookshop.
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The church

Location: ///rambles.mistreat.comforting28°40.93548’S, 153°26.33388’E Out for a country drive and stumbled across this beautiful old wooden church (St Aidans’ Anglican) just outside the town of Eureka. Originally built around 1895, it has obviously had some recent attention and a fresh coat of paint. I love the rich simplicity of this design. Standing on tiptoe I peered…
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Wish you were here.

Location: ///suave.glittered.replica28°38.41446’S, 153°36.73026’E Another postcard day walking the sand at Byron Bay. Sure the town has become the embodiment of everything I hate about over-development. But the beach…the beach remains just as I will always remember it. Seaspray, spirit-scapes and sand in the swim trunks.
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Hanging heads for old skool cool.

In case you were wondering, the practice of head shrinking (known as tsantsa) originated amongst the Jivaroan Indians of the Amazonian rainforest. It was believed that shrinking the head of a slain enemy would allow an individual to both acquire the dead persons soul and protect them against suffering the same fate. The heads were…

