by NRB | 20 Nov 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
The name Coochiemudlo refers to the red rock that outcrops on the island and provided ochre for the mainland Indigenous people who visited for fishing and ceremonies. The island has no permanent water and water is now piped from a vast Stradbroke Island aquifer. The...
by NRB | 13 Nov 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
I don’t know when I first developed my yen to live on an island. It may have related back to Robert Louis Stevenson, but more likely to a book that was a set text in my last year of high school. This was A Pattern of Islands (1952) by Arthur Grimble who had been the...
by NRB | 6 Mar 2015 | The Godfather: Peter Corris |
In 1999 Jean and I found ourselves living in Byron Bay. It hadn’t been planned. We’d made our sea change from Sydney to the south coast some years before, but we’d taken it into our heads to go north – for a change, for the warmth. Friends told us of a small sand...
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