Mother nature and time in the great outdoors.

Tell us about the last thing you got excited about.

I’m excited about taking 10 days off and heading out bush to camp under the magnificent Australian star-studded dark sky. I’m excited to stop at a city (large country town), just west of the Blue Mountains on the first night. Why? Because I’ll be stopping at an RSL that has a completely separate gluten free & other allergens menu. So my daughter and I can eat out like normal people (not that I like the term normal) I’m excited about setting up a bash-camp – complete with solar panels. I’m excited to cook over an open campfire, sit around the fire with my husband and daughter and simply absorb the vastness. I’m excited to crawl into a sleeping bag and drift off to sleep as I listen to the sounds of the bush – especially birdsong. I’m excited to have a new metal-detector to try my luck at finding alluvial gold. I’m excited to take early morning and late afternoon landscape and macro shots of nature. I’m excited to go bushwalking with my family, breathing in the clear clean country air.

I’m excited to take a break from work. I’m most excited about taking time to pause, where I’ll be disconnecting from technology and reconnecting with nature, family and self.