GET TO KNOW ME
I’m Don, I have a passion for mother nature and connecting people to her.
Enjoy my slide show of water reflections from around Australia, from Kakadu and Kimberley in the north to southeast Oz as a flood passes down the Goulburn River headed toward the iconic Barmah Forest, tannin stained waters of Gariwerd and lastly to Naracoorte in South Australia's mysterious limestone country.
I acknowledge people of the First Nations, on whose unceded land I live and work upon, and pay respect to elders past, present and emerging.
I have worked in most Australian states as an outdoor educator, tourguide, bushwalking guide, and National Parks interpretation ranger and fallen in love with many landscapes. Passionate about connecting people to the natural world by facilitating nature observation and the use of storytelling. Australian landscapes are thick with stories, along with my own observation I use stories from numerous sources, at times grounded in academic research while many flow from the cultural landscapes of indigenous and 'settler' Australia.
A second online project of mine is Home of the Yarra, Education, aimed at connecting the people of Melbourne to the source of their water by providing educational insights for the forested mountains to Melbourne's east. The Yarra Ranges and more broadly Victoria's Central Highlands contain high rainfall forests with protected catchments, the source of water for Melbourne's millions (1.7 million homes are supplied by the State Government corporation Melbourne Water). Without these wet forested mountains and hence the Yarra River Melbourne would not exist.
I have worked in most Australian states as an outdoor educator, tourguide, bushwalking guide, and National Parks interpretation ranger and fallen in love with many landscapes. Passionate about connecting people to the natural world by facilitating nature observation and the use of storytelling. Australian landscapes are thick with stories, along with my own observation I use stories from numerous sources, at times grounded in academic research while many flow from the cultural landscapes of indigenous and 'settler' Australia.
A second online project of mine is Home of the Yarra, Education, aimed at connecting the people of Melbourne to the source of their water by providing educational insights for the forested mountains to Melbourne's east. The Yarra Ranges and more broadly Victoria's Central Highlands contain high rainfall forests with protected catchments, the source of water for Melbourne's millions (1.7 million homes are supplied by the State Government corporation Melbourne Water). Without these wet forested mountains and hence the Yarra River Melbourne would not exist.