Tag Archive: Queensland

Australia Zoo

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Text: Garry Benson Images: © Garry Benson 2014 When I was little, for the first seven years of my life I was a skinny, sick little boy suffering from asthma. – At one… Continue reading

365 Places: North Stradbroke Island

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Day 16: North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia Stradbroke Island is, in short, one of my favourite places in South East Queensland. Affectionately known as Straddie, it has beautiful clean beaches, steeped in amazing Indigenous… Continue reading

365 Places: Aspley

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Day 9: Aspley, Queensland, Australia Today’s post is about a place where I spent some of my formative years, a suburb in Brisbane, Aspley. When I was a child, Aspley was considered the… Continue reading

365 Places: Caloundra

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Day 2: Caloundra, Queensland, Australia My post today is about another place that has special childhood significance for me – Caloundra. Many summer holidays were spent in the Caloundra village of Bulcock Beach… Continue reading

365 Places: Redcliffe

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Day 1: Redcliffe, Queensland Australia This lovely hand coloured photograph was taken at Woody Point around 60 years before I was born. Woody Point is one of the hamlets on the Redcliffe Peninsula,… Continue reading