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Palantir

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  1. Palantir

    Chapter 2

    Thank you Lol - a bit of humour is great in a story - great to hear it's worked.
  2. Palantir

    Chapter 3

    Yep! Your thinking is right about the place, a real place, and we do meet a special young First Australian - but his name is Woorawa not Mirrigan.
  3. Palantir

    Chapter 3

    Whoops! Mistake and I can't see how to delete.
  4. Palantir

    Chapter 2

    Thank you. I cheat, well it's not really cheating, because the settings are real and the experiences are based on treasured memories. I've camped at the base of the Fortress four times, watched another camper using the fire sticks, had the moon-rise trick me into thinking a wildfire was approaching, and woken with the ground outside my tent crisp and crunchy with the frost. I've abseiled and explored at Hollow Mountain and a wild honey-eater really did land on my shoulder and then my head. My mind boggles at the First Australian culture which has lived pretty much in harmony with this strange old continent for 50 or 60 thousand years.
  5. Palantir

    Chapter 3

    Thank you! Thank you!
  6. Palantir

    Chapter 3

    Great to see your interest is still being held. There's some time, and drama, back at College before the next travel adventure.
  7. Palantir

    Chapter 3

    Yep! There is a great deal to cover - though I do think a couple of rather incredible things occurred.
  8. Palantir

    Chapter 2

    Thank you, @centexhairysub. The Aussie locations are all real places I have explored. The power zap? Maybe! - lol.
  9. Palantir

    Chapter 1

    Hi @centexhairysub, Keiran and Mr B. are the only two from the realms. I'm delighted that the story has caught your interest. - I hope that continues.
  10. Palantir

    Chapter 3

    Chapter 3. *** The expedition progressed with a busy time of organising packs and a drive to a new area where the next hike started. After half an hour of walking beside a small creek, past a beautiful waterfall and up a steep scrambling trail, a strikingly desolate scene opened in front of them, a scene of charred trunks and isolated boulders, blackened remnants of vegetation and bare, scorched ground. Cameras and minds recorded this strange fire-scarred environment which stretched to t
  11. Watch the films! lol I don't need to - I remember seeing him live on the tele.
  12. box (Maybe I should explain - 'thunder-box' is old Aussie slang for an outdoor toilet)
  13. Ask an Author does it again! Every time this blog turns up, new people (or old stalwarts) enlighten us with personal insights, tit-bits of experience, new viewpoints. So interesting!
  14. Palantir

    Chapter 2

    hi @travlbug, Thanks for the comment - feedback is so good to get. Yes, there are complications ahead. I'm delighted that you enjoyed the nature writing - lol - I can't not put it in. Hmm! Watch closely in future chapters for more detail about the headache business.
  15. Palantir

    Chapter 2

    @Daddydavek Lots more to come (this is already my biggest story)
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