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A rider gallops a horse along the beach, towing a surfer who skims the water on his board.

Australia - June

2024 · Australia

CountriesAustralia
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A quiet rural main street lined with shops leads up to green wooded hills.A friendly grocer supermarket displays bright signage and potted plants out front.A weathered timber house on stilts has a wrap-around verandah crammed with stored items.A white egret and dark heron wade through breaking ocean foam.A row of pelicans and gulls rest on a muddy lakeside sandbar.A metal barbecue, chopped firewood and a green camp chair sit in a woodland clearing.A dry gully shows pale eroded banks and fallen timber under a forest.Grey dead stumps rise from a calm wetland fringed by green mangroves.Pale mangrove trunks and aerial roots stand in dark mud under dappled light.Young mangrove shoots sprout green leaves among a thicket of dark aerial roots.A wooden boardwalk with railings runs through a leafy mangrove forest.A black-and-white songbird rests on a weathered blue-painted wooden bench.A brown plover with a yellow face picks its way through short green grass.Rows of white homes with rooftop solar panels sit on a leafy hill under blue sky.White-roofed houses and palm trees crown a sunny hillside suburb.A white motor yacht floats on calm water above a low-tide shoreline.A small motor cruiser glides across a wide blue bay toward distant hills.People gather beside a white gazebo under a large tree at a waterside park.Blue bay water stretches toward a low tree-lined shoreline on the horizon.A modern two-storey home with an angular metal roof and a glass balcony lined with grey wicker chairs.A classic white weatherboard house with a full-width balcony behind a white picket fence.An ornate white house with a decorated balcony, an external stair, and a white picket fence.Three salt-worn fishing boats sit high and dry on a muddy riverbank at low tide.A white cruiser named African Queen sits on a muddy mangrove bank with a small dog aboard.

Journal Notes (1)
2024 Australia - June

General This stretch of Queensland pairs two landscapes that lie close together yet could hardly be more different. Inland sits Blackbutt, a small rural town and locality in the South Burnett Region, set on the D'Aguilar Highway roughly 166 km north-west of Brisbane on the inland …