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Seoraksan National Park
Jokar Photography
John Boyd Macdonald
Jokar Photography
John Boyd Macdonald
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Seoraksan National Park
Birds of North Sulawesi
It’s more than six months ago that we were in North Sulawesi/Sulawesi Utara (Indonesia), so well past time that I posted some pictures of birds that we encountered there. These pictures, from Tangkoko and the Tomohon region, highlight just a…
Private W.B. Macdonald NX 84656
I’m still wandering through old family photographs and documents, piecing together images and information, trying to form some coherent narrative of my father’s life. My father Bruce Macdonald enlisted in the Australian Army in January 1942. He was 19 years…
My father the jackaroo
Looking through some old family photos and documents. This from 80 years ago… In 1939, my father Bruce Macdonald applied by letter for work as a jackaroo at Newinga Station, Talwood Queensland. He was 17 years old and had already…
Birds of Halmahera
We had the great pleasure of travelling to the island of Halmahera (North Maluku, Indonesia) back in late March – early April this year. We only got to see a small part of this big island, spending the bulk of…
Mare pottery
Mare (pronounced “Marr-ay”) is a small island, just 3 km long and 2km wide. It’s located to the south of the bigger island of Tidore, in the chain of active and inactive volcanoes that make up the province of North…
Halmahera mudcakes
Did you ever ‘bake’ mudcakes as a child? I don’t know whether Australian kids still do it – perhaps they have too many other less messy things to do. However, in at least one a village on the island of…