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Redsultana is the personal blog of a working mum in Perth. Cellobella works in the mainstream media but amazingly has a life outside of it which she shares on her blog.
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Smoke haze over Perth
They were burning off in them thar hills and this morning the city was in a muted shade of grey. I took this photo out my car window, stopped in traffic on Thomas Street. You could smell the smoke all the way back to the coast. A few hours later the...
An expensive perch for one seagull
The Cottesloe Pylon has been fixed, just in time for summer. Not sure what the final cost was but it was quoted at $170 000… I like the way the colours reflect those of Cottesloe Surf Lifesaving Club… or maybe they reflect the paint on t...
A postcard from Roebourne
On Thursday I visited Roebourne. Roebourne is a small community of about 1000 people about half an hour from Karratha. In fact, Karratha is in the Shire of Roebourne. It’s an old gold rush town and was once the biggest settlement between Dar...
Wildflowers of Karratha
I’ve just returned from a short visit to Karratha. Clear blue skies, temperatures in the high 20s, low 30s. It was nice to feel hot. But it just gets hotter later in the year. Too hot. What struck me this time coming in from the airport ...
Butterflies and rivers
Isn’t this a great photo? I can’t claim credit. It’s one of my dad’s from his recent trip to the Kimberley. That ochre coloured stain on the rock is in fact… ochre. The butterfly had landed on some rock paintings. In...
A perfect life
What would you do next if you were at the top of your game in a Melbourne restaurant? Open another restaurant? Get even more busy? Well the fellow who runs this place got it right I reckon. He has a restaurant in Albany which he opens when he feels ...
Albany Pelicans
There’s something special about pelicans… they fly in like a squadron of bomber aircraft and land with pin point accuracy on their target. I travelled to Albany this week and discovered how beautiful a place it is. I took these photos dow...
The greenhood
Found under a bush at Dunsborough. July 4, 2009. About 18 cm tall. Pterostylis vittata More about this orchid. Of course my orchid hunter (Hugamuga) found it. It was the first time we’ve seen a greenhood on this site....
Mulled wine and fried mice
Just back from Europe Groover and I ventured down to Clancy’s to catch up with some friends who are freshly returned from their first trip to Europe. I thought they had been rather carefree and adventurous by not planning every step of their jo...
Better days in Bunbury
The Lord Forrest Hotel has seen them. I’m in Bunbury for a meeting or several. It’s a fairly quick drive from Perth. About two hours and when the bypass gets completed even quicker. I was thinking about staying down in Dunsborough bu...
Poorly Pylon
The first winter storm was the last straw for the Cottesloe Pylon which sank into its rotton core, losing its metal tip in the briny. The council are going to spend an extraordinary amount of money to put a single seagull’s perch together but i...
Sign Fail
I’m so glad they warned me about the water… I wasn’t expecting any at the edge of the Indian Ocean. Surely there should at least be a fin?...
The modern church
So what do you think? This is St Mary’s Cathedral in the centre of Perth undergoing extensive renovations and extensions. As you can see the new look includes a very modern semicircular section around the front. Long windows and curved pillar...
The sharks at Blackwell Reach
A lot of people go diving off Blackwell Reach - or at least they used to - it’s very deep. There are rumours of large river sharks that live down there. I imagine the visibility is a little “confronting”, but maybe that just means i...
Avon Adventure
One of the things I learned on a trip to Bath in the UK was that “avon” is the Celtic word for “river”. Thus when the Romans asked the ancient Britons what that river was called - they called it the Avon. This is why there are...
Kalgoorlie Dreaming
As my twitter readers know I’ve recently been to Kalgoorlie-Boulder. I love Kal. The air is clear and dry. The dirt is red. The people are friendly and wow… the buildings are fantastic. The other really impressive thing is...
The secret beach
When we go down south our favourite beach to swim at is a beach we’ve always called Little Meelup. As long as I’ve known it, I’ve never known it by any other name. I think it’s what Mum called it growing up - she grew up in Va...
Escape to Dunsborough
I’m in Dunsborough. Limited internet access but I confess even more limited enthusiasm for blogging, for anything technical really. I’ve been reading, staring at the view, popping down to the beach for a dip, eating and doing sudoku…...
Bunbury Christmas Tree
On a recent trip to Bunbury - two hours south of Perth - I spied this floral Christmas tree outside the Bunbury Arts Centre. It was so lovely and well so not tinselly that I had to photograph it. Inside is a metal spiral potplant. Not sure if that ...
As pretty as an airport*
Airports aren’t known for their aesthetics - well, apart from Vancouver which is outstanding - but I discovered that we do have at least one very nicely designed airport in Western Australia, and in an unlikely place. Why I think Geraldton is a...
A rose by any other name
At the airport a couple of weeks ago I was sharing a table at the cafe with a rather good looking chap who was on his way to Cloudbreak. Cloudbreak, I thought, doesn’t that sound like a lovely destination… Well it is, if you like mining ...
The house-sitting chemist
On a recent trip to Geraldton, I was looking for another camera bag after I lost the second one in two weeks and a hostess gift for dinner that night - and as luck would have it, not only did the local chemist include a camera shop it also had a Dar...
Mamma Mia! A Kimberley girl
After a long day at work I thought I’d treat myself by forgoing yet another work dinner - hell I’d had a work breakfast - and head down to Sun Pictures to see a movie. You can probably guess which one. I’d missed the season in Pert...
Broome-time reunion
I’m in Broome today for work - I know, what a bitch of a job eh? - anyway I’m strolling through Chinatown trying to find a sandwich at 3pm - not easy - I almost had to go to Subway - when I spot a girl I knew at school. She reminded me th...
Our football sized mammals
Last night we went for a drive about 45 minutes out of Perth to Karakamia Sanctuary. The sanctuary is named after the red-tailed black cockatoo and they were the first birds we saw on entering the property. It all feels a bit Jurassic Park as you e...
Flashback to the Polly Pipe opening
Growing up with an civil engineer for a dad meant that we went to a lot of openings of big infrastructure projects. This is me and my brother at the opening of the Stirling Bridge in Fremantle. There is a better photo somewhere but I can’t fin...
The mystery of the white trees of Perth
For the last few years when driving past the man-made lake on Mounts Bay Road in Perth I’ve wondered why all the trees are white. The kids always ask me why, and I, like the guy on that ad - you know the Great Wall of China is to keep the ra...
Last Horse Standing by Mike Keenan
Last Horse Standing by Mike Keenan tells the story of Jack Camp, a Kimberley stockman who went on a near fatal mustering expedition to Walcott Inlet in 1971. Based on a true story as told to Mike by Jack’s young jackeroo Peter Wann, the story ...
Picnic at Elachbutting Rock
On the way back from the station last week we stopped by Elachbutting Rock. This granite outcrop is one of many in the area but a bit more special because of Monty’s pass - where part of the rock has sheared off and created a tunnel, and the R...
Dust Storm near Mukinbudin
Driving home on Tuesday after a beautiful morning at Elachbutting Rock - photos to come - we drove through a vicious dust storm. At first we thought it might be the rain that had been promised but it wasn’t until we’d passed Trayning tha...
