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Ningaloo: Deadly, Beautiful, and Still Real

In Ningaloo Nights, the stunning Australian outback isn’t just a backdrop—it’s a character all on its own: beautiful, remote, and deadly if you don’t know what you’re doing. When beta readers questioned whether I’d exaggerated the dangers, I had to assure them—every survival detail in the book is true. Growing up around Ningaloo taught me that nature doesn’t pull punches. But oh, the beauty is worth every ounce of caution.

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Water, Arches, and Ancient Brilliance: The Underrated Fascination of Aqueducts

“Aqueducts are the perfect intersection of beauty and practicality. They’re not just pretty ruins—they were the arteries of ancient cities, still standing, still defying time.”

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Roses, Chinese Food and A Very Different Christmas.

I’m sort-of in mourning at the moment. A few days ago, our provincial government announced mandatory pandemic measure that made it illegal for families to hold indoor gatherings, under penalty of pretty severe fines. Although the measures are “temporary” and will be revisited in three weeks’ time, the threat was made pretty clear:  If COVID

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A James Bond-worthy Setting for the Next Project Kobra Book!

This place is surreal! It is the Oberoi Udaivilas hotel in Udaipur, India. Not your average highway motel. Udaipur is one of the oldest cities in India.  Man settled on the banks of the Ahur River around 2000 BC, and the city of Udaipur was established in 1558 CE. The hotel is on the shore

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Lose yourself in our planet’s beauty with the winners of Wiki Loves Earth

I am a long time financial supporter of Wikipedia.com, and recently, as a thank you, I was sent a sneak preview of their photo competition.  The winners are every bit as good as some of the stunning National Geographic photography, and worthy of a lingering browse. Check the winners out here, and enjoy! Cheers, .

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Pampered Vampires and the Mile-High Club

This is one of the posts I lost, that I recently unearthed in a raw PHP coded archive.  It first appeared on this blog in March 2011, just when I was launching my very first indie title, Blood Knot.  This is some of the research I did for that novel. — t. We tend to

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Somehow, I’ll Get This Into A Story!

I’m not entirely sure how I found this one.  Not sure how I’m going to use it, either. A Russian fisherman, Roman Fedortsov, has an Instagram account where he posts images of the creatures he and his fellow fisherman find in their nets.  They trawl far and deep, and some of the life in the

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Time travel as tourism…where would you go?

This is another long post that ran in conjunction with the release of Bannockburn Binding (the individual book, not the series boxed set that was released a few weeks ago!). The blog where it appeared has long gone. (Yet I’m still here.  There’s a sobering thought.) I’m preserving the post here, instead.  — t. I’ve been

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The Snakes On This Island Kill Humans, Not Just Baby Iguanas.

Back in March I ran a post about the horrifying episode of Planet Earth II that ran on the BBC, showing recer snakes gobbling up baby iguanas as they rushed for the beach. I thought that one was bad enough. Since then, I have tripped across another island. This one is called Ilha da Queimada

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