Koonorigan 

Photos of a Koonorigan farm bewdy

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Stories ...life on the farm

Diary of a new chum farmer, 2002

Living with snakes at Koonorigan

More snakey photos

Italian Prisoners of War in Koonorigan, 1944

Heather Mustard sings the Koonorigan School Song 48 years after she last sang it. MP3, 750kb

'Koonorigan' the book a whopping 1.4mb PDF

Cattle Mutilations in Koonorigan.

Nimbin

Free photographs of the 2004 Mardigrass

More Ganja Faeries from Nimbin's 2004 Mardigrass

Photos from the 2005 Nimbin Mardigrass drug reform parade

Drum music from the Mardigrass parade, gets-ya dancing, MP3 (112kb)

The whole town of Nimbin is an art gallery. Photos of the streetscape and the Nimbin Museum. 1 ...2 ... 3 ... 4

The Channon

Frisbee golf is played 4pm each Wednesday in Coronation Park, The Channon (where the markets are held). It's free, golf frisbees can usually be borrowed. Meet the locals. Download a map of the course, PDF 52kb. Photos of locals playing frisby golf on 3-8-05. 1 ... 2 ... 3

Free photographs of The Channon Markets

A DRUM CIRCLE forms at the end of each market at The Channon

Port Stephens NSW

Information about the gun emplacements and military activites in 1942 around Fort Tomaree, near Nelson Bay, New South Wales, Australia.

Geographic and historical information about Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia.

The meaning of place names around Port Stephens.

Brief historical facts about Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia.

Lots more historical facts about Port Stephens.

Twenty eight DID YOU KNOW ? facts about Port Stephens.

The Worimi were a tribe of Australian aboriginals living around Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia, before european settlement.

The Kutthung dialect was spoken amongst the Australian Aborigines living along the southern bank of the Karuah River and the south shore of Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia.

A diary of natural events that occur each year in the Port Stephens area.

A comparison of three live trapping surveys to discover what Mammals live on the Tomaree Peninsula, Port Stephens.

A story, THE FLICK, about animal trapping from an antechinus point of view.

A bird list for the Tomaree Peninsula.

A list of the 650 plant species that grow around Port Stephens and the Myall Lakes, New South Wales, Australia.

Free maps of Myall Lakes, Stockton Beach, Lake Macquarie, Albury CBD (mobility guide), Nelson Bay mobility guide.

Geology of the Tomaree Peninsula and Port Stephens.

The Tilligerry Peninsula on the northern shores of Port Stephens contains the towns of Tanilba Bay, Mallabula and Lemon Tree Passage.

Download a free map of Tanilba Bay, (1997 version), PDF 387kb.

Download a free map of Lemon Tree Passage, (1997), PDF 387kb.

You can get to Nelson Bay by boat. Here is a story of one such trip from Port Hacking to Port Stephens.

A story about crusing the Myall Lakes system by boat.

A story about sailing to Broughton Island off Port Stephens, New South Wales, Australia.

Download a free map of Stockton Beach (2000), PDF 194kb.

Some stories about Peter Jarver's book SNOWGUMS TO SAND.

A kit for making a Port Stephens fresh air box.

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An account of the GREAT NORTH WALK from Sydney to Newcastle, Australia.

An account of the THREE PEAKS walk in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia.

A description of how to light a fire by rubbing two sticks together using the bow drill method.

Make a CRUX-CLOCK for telling time from the southern cross.

STORIES; My experience of Aboriginal Australia, Brother M's Poetry Lesson (surviving the catholic school system), When the people of Koonorigan went nude, Two donkeys (Jitterbug and Renee), The hippy, the straight and the Sphinx, Jury Duty, Encounter with a muttonbird on Broughton Island, Walk to the Stinson wreck, An account of an unexpected night spent in The Blue Mountains, My life as an Ecotourism Guide, A walk to Sphinx Rock,

The Federal Pass, links Katoomba and Leura Falls in the Blue Mountains near Sydney.

Make a chair from paper mache.

Easy way to make biochar for the garden.

Want to know what I look like? Download this QuickTime Virtual Reality file, 323kb. Drag your mouse across the picture and watch it spin. Good luck.

This website has been on the net since April 1999 so some of the info is dated, however I have jazzed it up in December 2009

ALL INFORMATION ON THIS SITE IS COPYRIGHT MICHAEL SMITH 1999

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