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Meeting Mark and Mya
Read more: Meeting Mark and MyaWhen we heard Mark and his white shepherd, Mya, were visiting Brisbane for the All Dogs Spectacular we knew we had to meet them. But how would adventure cat Willow react to meeting adventure dog Mya? Now, while Willow and I’s style of adventuring is limited to napping in new and unusual places, unfolding the…
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Saturday Afternoon Cat Nest
Read more: Saturday Afternoon Cat NestIt’s Saturday afternoon and the old orchard has been freshly mown. Willow jumps out of the van having awoken from her nap, surveys the scene, then walks up with tail high. By an old lemon tree that once formed a row, she sits. Across the old orchard, the even older blue gums stand. Their branches…
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Super Amazing News!
Read more: Super Amazing News!There’s one thing I didn’t expect to find when I left Tasmania back in 2015 with my cat Willow on the road trip of a life time. But in 2016 in Perth, Western Australia, I found Stephanie. She was quick to embrace my unusual living situation, and of course little Willow. Since then, the three…
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Listen to us on the Catexplorer Podcast
Read more: Listen to us on the Catexplorer PodcastListen to the full podcast here! We are so very proud to be this week’s guest on the Catexplorer podcast. Join us as I chat to Hasara and Daniel about how Willow went from house cat to catexplorer, travelling Australia with me in our van. We talk about how I made preparations for a life…
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Setting the Scene in the Old Orchard
Read more: Setting the Scene in the Old OrchardOn a mild winter’s afternoon we were all settled in at our old orchard campsite near Brisbane. Once a lemon grove, now the perfect location to give Willow some outdoor time on the days Steph is busy studying in Brisbane. [vcm_short_ad] I grabbed my camera and walked around the van to find Willow lying in…
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Our Northern NSW Roadtrip Adventure
Read more: Our Northern NSW Roadtrip AdventureThe Brisbane summer was unrelenting and we were really feeling the heat. When even the locals are melting you know it’s a hot one! [vcm_short_ad] There was only one thing for it. Steph, Willow, and I packed into the van and headed on an ‘escape the heat’ road trip to Northern New South Wales. Our…
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What’s in the water at Nymboida River?
Read more: What’s in the water at Nymboida River?On our way up to the Dorrigo Plateau, Steph, Willow, and I found ourselves at a park by the Nymboida River. The mowed lawns of Cartmill Park offered many places to pull up the van and enjoy the scenery. We parked next to the bridge in the shade of some Oak trees. [vcm_short_ad] The best…
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Willow visits Wattle Flat but no Frogs
Read more: Willow visits Wattle Flat but no FrogsOur plan of escaping the Brisbane heat had brought us to Northern NSW and its magnificent beaches – but the days were still scorching. So, from Grafton, Steph, Willow, and I headed up the Great Dividing Range on our way to a little campsite by a river that I just knew would give us the…
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The Cat Cuddle Cafe And 499 Cats
Read more: The Cat Cuddle Cafe And 499 CatsIn the inner Brisbane suburb of Lutwyche there is a unique cafe that attracts cat lovers from all over the city. It’s the not-for-profit Cat Cuddle Cafe and I got to chat with its founder, Katina Balson, as they close in on their 500th adoption. A few weeks earlier I happened to drive through Lutwyche and…
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Willow In the Hawk’s Nest
Read more: Willow In the Hawk’s NestA narrow strip of land connects the Tasman peninsular to the rest of Tasmania. In the 1800s, it was once guarded by a chain of dogs thwarting the escape of any convict who dared abscond from the hellish conditions of the Port Arthur penal settlement. [vcm_short_ad] These days, the area is a shack community known…