Countries I've been to

I was checking out someone on Flickr, by looking at his profile, and lo and behold there was something like the map below. Doodling through the possibilities, I was minded to create my own, but how false it is. I have actually visited every state and territory of Australia, but the linear tracings of my paths, reveal that I have seen bugger-all, although, now in my seventh decade, I am working on it. I have certainly not yet visited the North Island of NZ and the south is so wonderful, that that is where I would be tempted to return. Sadly, the map is so USA-centric that the country of my birth (Australia) and that wonderful country to the east (NZ) are not visible (and nor is New Caledonia), so I look like a European (6 weeks from a lifetime???).



create your own visited countries map

The photo is from my visit to Patonga Creek, and was taken on the road back.


Acacia linifolia
(Growing in Brisbane Water NP at the top of Mount Ettalong, amidst the lovely grey of dead branches and wonderful chaotically resurgent and beautiful new growth after a fire probably a year ago. Another December flowering acacia. Beautiful.)