Category: Miscellany

These shots were taken in what is currently known as Ben Boyd National Park, near Eden in southern New South Wales. Ben Boyd was a Scottish colonialist and is considered Australia’s first ‘blackbirder’, who shipped South Sea Islanders to Australia in effective slavery.  There is a movement to change the name to honour the original inhabitants of the land, the Thaua people.

Genoa Peak sits in the Croajingolong National Park in eastern Victoria, about 20km west of Mallacoota.  These were taken just off the peak.

This is actually an old one, taken near the Kingaroy observatory in Queensland in early 2016. The area around Kingaroy hosts a number of different observatories, and prior to taking these shots we’d spent an amazing hour at the Kingaroy Observatory , looking at various astrophysical phenomenon through telescopes.