Feeling athletic we scramble down (jackets off, hats on, sun hot) to the popular spot we rest among passing long weekenders and languages we don't understand. Rain lands on our shoulders rain lands on our hats rain lands on our…
Category: Places
places i visit.
How do I say friend in a single photograph?
Attending mass at the Shrine of Agtalin on the first Saturday of the month is a religious tradition practiced by thousands in the Capiz and Iloilo provinces of the Philippines. The Shrine of Agtalin is located in Pilar, Capiz (Philippines).
A Simple Island Life
Each morning begins before the sun appears over the cliff raining daylight along the leeward living below our 21st century sun. Monkeys grab at fruit scraps (sometime pets) a few chickens and fecund dogs wander a small shore. Children squeal…
Perpetual Tourist
How do you find a sense of belonging when living between two countries? In 2004 I travelled to New Zealand for the first time with my BFF Jac. Both of us keen SCUBA divers, Jac eagerly told me about an…
Wandering and Waiting
post happy hour nostalgia. wandering a twilight pathway. remembering my australianness. wondering and waiting to fly. © 2016 Melinda Irvine
Tidal Lagoon
belly exposed, your dirty undergarments down. oh look what crawls out © 2016 Melinda Irvine
Finding Myself Again
allowing high-tide to wash over my body following dragonflies with sky-turned eyes eating on the sand together balancing on a bamboo outrigger calling two little boys to lunch searching for fresh tree seeds and leaves shaking sand from my swimmer…
Broken Boats
I love a place where broken boats are beautiful. Even broken boats. © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Island Weekend
© 2015 Melinda Irvine
Cosmetics
pretty city pics no begging or busted pipes plastic bag homeless © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Elephants and Art
I arrive at the Singapore Zoo expecting elephants not art © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Wheel of Brisbane
spins my head around (like sparkling wine at the bar far below). slow. slow. © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Old Moree Rocket
1975 you are tall like the sun, me small as you are now © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Who lies beneath you?
bush cemetery who lies beneath your lichen trees and unmarked cross? © 2015 Melinda Irvine
Assumptions
Sometimes you make the most ridiculous assumptions. The other night I pulled up after driving all day and parked under the bridge at the Emerald Botanical Gardens. It was bloody hot. Western Queensland driving all day in the heat hot.…
Blencoe Falls on the Kirrama Range Road
Leaving Mission Beach to the wet season was a great opportunity to cut across the Kirrama Range Road which has been closed for many years and visit Blencoe Falls. A stunning late summer morning after a recent (much-needed) deluge and…
Magical Mission Beach
Mission Beach, the Wet Tropics/Cassowary Coast and Far-north Queensland generally is my favourite place in the world. I'm not really sure why, but it is the place I feel the most creative and continues to draw me back whenever I…