travelingcrowJun 4, 20202 min readThe Last PostHappiness comes the way the wind blows. - Mikhail Lermontov The number one internet search for us over the last week has been the South...
travelingcrowMay 23, 20202 min readEasing Restrictions"Ze plane, ze plane" - Tattoo, Fantasy Island We got a much needed re stock recently when parks staff and contractors flew in to do some...
travelingcrowMay 4, 20202 min readPaparazziI'm making notes for a book. It's to be a chronicle of our adventures on the island... I think it's a book people will want to buy, don't...
travelingcrowApr 21, 20202 min readFacing Fears"Pull yourself together, Teddy. Pull yourself together". - Teddy, Shutter Island Above: Hanging on the whim cart (horse powered) that was...
travelingcrowApr 9, 20202 min readBeautiful One Day, Wild The Next.Above: Storm rolling in. "I think of the light here like that, like a splinter of a star that’s fallen to earth: it just shines, no...
travelingcrowMar 28, 20202 min readUtopia"We can't have kids stealing and just running wild. We're going to have to have stricter rules and hand out demerits... I guess". -...
travelingcrowMar 19, 20202 min readSelf Isolation "We are fugitives of the law. Idiocy is our only option". - Sam Daniels, Outbreak Above: Hanging out front of the museum, one of the...
travelingcrowMar 12, 20202 min readOn Island TimeTo Hell with your bathing costumes! You don't wear them when you have a bath, do you? - Paddy Button, Blue Lagoon Above: Looking north...
travelingcrowMar 6, 20202 min readChicken Soup "Call the mainland. Tell them to send the damn helicopters" - Dr Alan Grant, Jurassic Park 7am, Day 3 – we were woken with a thud at the...
travelingcrowMar 6, 20202 min readI Think We're Alone Now "leave us alone on this solitary place, let us be content; and rejoice that we are all together in safety.” - Father, The Swiss Family...
travelingcrowMar 1, 20202 min readWhere Everybody Knows Your Name "There may be no secrets in small towns, but there are no strangers either" R.A. Mathis After 5 days on Flinders Island we have well and...
travelingcrowFeb 19, 20201 min readAnd So It Begins..."Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." --Benjamin Franklin I have set up this page in an attempt to...