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January 21st 2013
Life inland away from the belt of coastal conurbation is where the true roots of Australian grit remains. While those fringe dwellers have the salty sea breeze to accompany and soften their existence those inland are the salt of the earth itself braving temperatures that creep upward from the thirties and into the forties with no air conditioned office and still manage a days work. There are few w ... read more

Oceania » Australia » Western Australia » Boyup Brook

Aboriginal settlers arrived on the continent from Southeast Asia about 40,000 years before the first Europeans began exploration in the 17th century. No formal territorial claims were made until 1770, when Capt. James COOK took possession in the name... ... read more

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Tom Hickman

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I'm a journeyman artist living in Brittany and wandering mainy in the west coast of Scotland and south west corner of Australia. I was raised on the Mull of Kintyre and also have a small house on the Island of Lewis. I never take the direct route preferring to search out the remote coastal wilderness. In Australia my oldest friends lends me his Landrover and I disappear for weeks at a time. I alway travel alone accompanied only by my sketch pad and paints, never sticking to recognised paths I must always be aware of my limits whether climbing a coastal cliff or bushbashing my way to an inacces... full info

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