We are getting to the end of our holidays. Seven months on the road, how fast it all went! Incredibly, the most surprising part of this journey came at the very end, once we set our feet on the island of Tasmanian. What was so familiar (?), we all wondered. Was it...
In the early part of eighteen hundred, little was known of the interior of Australia, as very few foreigners had ventured into the center of this enormous continent. Yet one man, Paweł Strzelecki, a Polish nobleman, geologist, and notable explorer, did just that,...
The Aboriginal people of Australia had been creating rock art for millennia. Okra paint was used to paint on rocks, and so archeologists have been able to date some of the oldest rock art to as far back as 60,000 years ago. The caves in the Kimberly hold some of the...
While I was making this charming postcard of our adventure on the Great Barrier Reef, Padma and I realized that, to be honest, we had to show you one more illustration… Yes, but how was I supposed to do it? How do you show the impact of global warming, man-made...
As Australia is now open from lockdowns, we are going for the summer holidays. Padma and I are hitting the road and heading north to the Great Barrier Reef. From there, we plan to travel through the “Red Centre” south to Tasmania. We can put aside five months to...
Last night I dreamed that I was in Sopot walking in a park. A large stone lay in the shade of the old trees. I saw that someone had carved a comfortable seat into it. But the most surprising sight was the two-dimensional copper contour of my favorite four heroes... 