Geography on Vacation – Lake Hayward: Water, Air, Fire and Earth

It was good to absorb myself in more natural surroundings and get more-or-less offline for a week. It was worth the numerous mosquito bites! Lots of lovely family memories made; here are but a few through a geographer's lens.

“Give me a name…”;

JRR Tolkien was of course a very talented writer with an amazingly creative imagination. He once said: "Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally." This is the case with natural disasters (notice I didn't say hazards - Geography students should be about to tell you why!), for example: The Boxing Day … Continue reading “Give me a name…”;