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    Outback Dreaming
    Outback Dreaming
    Outback Dreaming
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    Outback Dreaming

    By Stephen Brown

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    This very personal collection covers the second period of the author’s time in Australia, the majority of which was spent in the Rainforests and less-visited Outback, away from the more established tourist haunts of the Queensland coast.
    Join the author’s personal highs and lows as he describes a mammoth road-trip in his own, inimitable way through titles such as The Red Centre, Flip-flops in the Night, and Leopard Skin Sheets...
    From comedy to the despair of a fairly major mid-life crisis (and back again), Dreaming is one man’s growth through his experiences on the road.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStephen Brown
    Release dateMar 3, 2016
    ISBN9781310849787
    Outback Dreaming
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    Stephen Brown

    Stephen Brown is Emeritus Professor of Learning Technologies and former Head of the School of Media and Communication at De Montfort University. He has been Senior Technology Adviser at the JISC Technologies Centre, Head of Distance Learning at BT, Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Engineering Design, and President of the Association for Learning Technology. He has also been a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and an Associate Member of the Institute for Ergonomics and Human Factors. Since 2005, he has been a registered European Commission research expert in the fields of Technology Enhanced Learning, Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage. He was a member of the AHRC Peer Review College for ten years.

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      Outback Dreaming - Stephen Brown

      OUTBACK DREAMING

      By Stephen Brown

      Copyright 2012 Stephen Brown

      Smashwords Edition

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      For

      Aboriginal peoples of Australia, past, present and future

      Contents

      Title Page

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Walkabout

      Frangipani Days

      Outback

      Three Days East

      Eight is Great

      About the Author

      Other Works

      Chosen Charity

      Introduction

      OUTBACK DREAMING contains five separate collections, continuing my journey from the moment I left Bundy to seven months later when my visa ran out and I was forced to wave an emotional goodbye to the land of Oz.

      Those months saw me travel thousands of kilometres and traverse some of the most beautiful - and desolate – landscapes in the World. From an East coast island to the red centre, deserts and Croc country, it was a journey I’ll never forget.

      WALKABOUT

      Introduction

      Two months in Bundaberg? Enough! Time to go Walkabout. I visited a childhood friend just down the coast to wean myself away from the safety of the known and after a short time there, nipping over to Fraser Island in the meantime, I decided it was time I headed out to Alice, and to Uluru...

      Still making it up as I went along, I left the Red Centre after ten marvellous days, just as the rains came to the desert. Touching down in Cairns, I had to make a decision on which way to go next.

      Joining a group of friends camping won over diving on the Reef and so after a few days of the mangroves of the tropical North I found myself on a bus headed South, to Clowd City…

      Contents

      Sleepy, Hippy Song of Love

      Lake Painting

      The Red Centre

      The Irish Ranger

      Ellery Creek, Big hole

      Alice

      Bus Driving wasn’t his First Job

      Welcome to the Jungle

      More to Life

      Hangin’

      Camping in Eungella

      Regenbogen

      A SLEEPY, HIPPY SONG OF LOVE – For Kym’s House and Fraser Island

      I’m feeling gentle

      Soft, smooth and serene

      Due to who

      I’ve been spending time with

      And to where I’ve been

      Such boundless Love

      Such Giveaway

      A Mother’s Love doesn’t fade away

      It just keeps growing day by day

      I found it gorgeous, I must say

      And Fraser Island

      What a place!

      Put such a smile upon my face

      The Dingos that I went to see

      And so much more was shown to me

      What can I say?

      Lake Wabby

      An amphitheatre

      Beautiful

      As beautiful can be

      The Double Rainbow and goodbye

      Bringing warmth into my eyes

      So lovely

      So beautiful

      Like Kym with Kiri’s bag for school

      Like the three horses

      All the dogs too

      Such a perfect world

      If only we knew

      Just how lucky

      We are

      The chance to be gentle

      The opportunity to be gentle

      Gentle, gentle

      Kind and gentle

      Peace, release

      Peace, release

      Kind and gentle

      Peace

      Release

      ***

      LAKE PAINTING

      The crystal sweet waters of Lake McKenzie

      Enticed and embraced

      Cut through to the real me

      Behind my face

      Showed me many things

      Below the surface

      Beneath the skin

      Answers in patterns

      Hidden deep within

      Cold waters clear and cold

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