52 thoughts since leaving Naarm
1. I’m going to talk in dot points
2. Left Naarm/Melbourne after some big life changes
3. Feeling unprepared but excited
4. Love doing the drive with my perfect friend Chris
5. Melbourne to Adelaide is a boring drive, if I had more time I wish we could’ve gone the coastal route
6. Chris and me were both feeling really depresso and found this day the hardest
7. Malvin Beach is a great swimming spot
8. It was hot and I was already sunburnt
9. Our host in Malvin Beach was a lovely big talker who wanted to discuss the big issues in the world (Trump, Musk, etc)
10. I’m really good at getting up super early for big drives
11. Adelaide to Coober Pedy drive was flat grey brown and blue
12. Mostly everything was shut in CP, I’m sad we didn’t get to go to the Big Winch 360 on Italian Club Rd.
13. Great steak at the Coober Pedy Outback Bar and Grill with Pizza spot next to the motel.
14. I am way too claustrophobic to live in an underground house, but maybe that’s the future for our warming planet (temperature control)
15. I am not that into opals
16. There’s a Croatian club in Coober Pedy
17. CP to Alice is a beautiful drive
18. My friend told me about a roadhouse with heaps of emus 2hrs south of Alice
19. We found it
20. There were lots of emus and it was exactly 2hrs south of Alice
21. It was 40 degrees when we got to Alice
22. Went for a swim at Emily Gap with Chris and Rachel
23. Apparently there’s lots of gossip in Alice
24. I always find it hard working out a routine in a new place
25. Went to the bird show at Desert Park
26. Would recommend
27. It is $40 entry but still would recommend
28. The nocturnal house at desert parks was really weird
29. Animals live in reverse?
30. Or continuous darkness?
31. Bilbies (macrotis lagotis) (Arrernte name: Aherte)
32. I want to make a diorama inspired by the dioramas the animals live in in Noctural House
33. I’m going to make some air dry clay sculptures for me diorama
34. My diorama looks not that good
35. I think it’s the cardboard and the lighting
36. I meet Lily who invites me to the ranger camp
37. The drive to Ross River Resort is so beautiful yet scary, there’s lots of cows on the road and it is a windy road
38. The presentations at the ranger camp were special
39. It was so interesting hearing about how Indigenous rangers look after their country
40. And how they have to manage the issues thrust upon them by governments (buffel grass, heavy hoofed animals, wild cats, etc. etc. etc.)
41. The second day there were presentations from Parks NT, teaching TO’s, I thought it’d be the other way around
42. Government priorities: Life > Property > Environment
43. It has been raining a lot here
44. I’m really obsessed with Arthur Russel’s song This is how we walk on the moon
45. The Todd River is filling up
46. I go to Telegraph Station to film the river flowing on my super 8
47. I forgot to pack extra film
48. I go to the tip shop for the 3rd time and buy cut offs of timber and steel to create sculpture/paintings
49. It’s still raining
50. I feel anxious when I don’t have plans or my people around
51. I work through my anxiety
52. I’m still anxious but now for other reasons
