2024

On the weekend I purchased a campervan, to enable me to travel and stay at places I would not normally visit. My first visits will be on Yorkes, and at Christmas I will venture to Queensland to visit my brother and his family. I will post pictures on my FB page. I am still teaching at MAS, in the DSC or Wildu class, and loving my life working with my students.I am getting up in age now, so starting to contemplate retirement and what full-time travelling will look like for me.

2022 Where am I now?

2019 saw changes in my life once again. I moved to the Yorke Peninsula and started at Moonta Area School. I started teaching a yr 1 and year 2 class for two years. I thoroughly enjoyed this, but when the opportunity came for me to apply for the District Special Class, I could not turn the chance down. The reason I became a teacher initially was to work with children with learning difficulties. So 2021 saw me shift classrooms and work with 12 very individual students, all of whom I have grown close to, and enjoy working with everyday. Instead of calling our class the DSC, we are now known as the Wildu class, Wildu is the totem animal for the Narungga People from this area. The Wildu is the Wedge Tail Eagle, native to this area.

2017

2017 has been fantastic year so far! I have my own class at Willsden Primary School, year 2, which I am thoroughly enjoying. It is a challenge with such diverse learning capabilities. The children themselves want to learn, some are just slower at learning than others, and it is up to me (at this stage anyway), to close that gap! I am starting to get into Geochaching now that my ankle has healed, so look out for pics on my travels around the state.

2016

2016 started off with a car accident on the highway between Port Augusta and Adelaide on the 22nd January.  I was on my way to see my mum in the Royal Adelaide Hospital only to be admitted myself.  I sustained a crushed Tylus bone in my Right foot.  On the 9th of May I was told I could begin to put pressure on my foot.

2015: With a new year comes a new job....

2015

I am now in a new job, teaching Science NIT at a primary school in Port Augusta in a category 1 school. Although the job itself is at times quite stressful, I am enjoying the relationships I am beginning to build with the students. How they are gradually starting to change their current view that Science is a time to muck around and not a time for learning, that it is not always boring (well hopefully not anyway).

So, I am no longer an Itinerant Teacher, and though I miss travelling around the countryside, I am loving the more permanent feeling of staying in one spot and the kids come to me.

April to November, 2013

On Peak Hill on McDoual Peak Station

View from Peak Hill

On the Murray River

On the bank of the Murray River.

In a dry creek on Sth Gap station.

A lagoon at Red Banks on Sth Gap.

Red Banks on South Gap.

Another view at Red Banks.

A grave on Yudnapinna Station.

Tawny Frog Mouths on Billa Kalina.

Finches on Mount Victor.

The long and winding road to Mt. Victor.

April 2013, Stuart Footprint

This year I have great delight traveling up the Stuart Highway, visiting families between Port Augusta and Coober Pedy in South Australia.  Although the scenery stays fairly constant, it has a raw beauty.

At Mt Eba Station.

This is an old bomb shelter properties near Woomera had to build years ago.  The army used to test their rockets and would notify each property and everyone then had to sit in their shelters and wait out the tests.  This one is at McDouall Peak Station, South of Coober Pedy.

The Dog Fence, Billa Kalina Station near Woomera.

At McDouall Peak Station, just South of Coober Pedy.  Enjoying a walk with the family.

Myself with one of the ponies at Billa Kalina Stn.

A Wedged-Tailed Eagle on Billa Kalina.

At Red Bank on Sth Gap Station.