While a group of ambitious Sydneysiders and Canberrians (those who reside in the ACT or Australian Capitol Territory) took to the slopes for a long weekend of skiing, snowboarding, runny noses and bruised buttocks, I decided to turn a weekend out of Sydney into a short writer’s retreat. What I found was a lot of long stretch of empty country past the three hour traffic jam through Sydney, a lot of birds, kangaroos, fluffy possums and other animals that make for mysteriously shaped road kill (okay, I saw plenty of living ones too) and some robust Aussie sheep who really like to stare. Here are some of the highlights from my snowless weekend.
You can see the rest of the photos from my adventures in pastoral Oz on Flickr.
