Margaret R Kelly

Tag: nature

  • Bribie Island: A Day Trip to a forgotten gem or a prequel to retirement?

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    If you’re planning a trip around South East Queensland, or wondering about spots to get out of Brizzie for the day, you might be wondering: is Bribie Island really worth visiting? It often gets overshadowed by bigger-name tourist traps in its vicinity, like the Sunshine Coast or Moreton Island, but this little slice of paradise…

  • Escape to Nature: Six Highlight Parts of The Scenic Rim

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    Living in Ipswich, on the threshold between Brisbane and the Magnificent Scenic Rim, we are spoiled for choice when it comes to natural rainforests, gardens, walking trails, ancient volcanic mountains with views and waterfalls, and small boutique-shop towns to explore. Hubs and I are not coffee, wine, cheese and produce connoisseurs, but there are foody…

  • Over the Sea to Skye

    Over the Sea to Skye

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    It’s November and late autumn in Scotland. My brother and I are on a ‘Family Heritage Tour’ —a kind of pilgrimage— to the stomping ground of some of our ancestors—the Macleods of Dunvegan and Talisker on the Hebridean island of Skye, a popular holiday and tourist destination in summer. The tempestuous Atlantic crashes against Skye’s…

  • HASTE YE BACK: ISLE OF COLL, SCOTLAND

    HASTE YE BACK: ISLE OF COLL, SCOTLAND

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    Scotland’s a land of monumental mountains and misty glens, castles with hidden stories, drams of whisky straight from the source, men in kilts, kelpies, selkies and Fay folk. It’s a mystical, time-shrouded lodestone which entices for many reasons, but the strongest for me is that my roots are tangled deeply in its rockiest, most wind-lashed soil:  the…