Introducing our Plan.

June 12th 2021. Lennox Head. Bundjalung Country.

In just 2 months from now my husband, Nick, and I will head south in our little camper van. The van will henceforth be fondly named Swifty. She will provide us shelter most nights for the next 12 months. Swifty is also our supply carrier, wardrobe, ensuite (minus the toilet and shower), lounge room, kitchen and dressing room. She is all of 5 metres long.

Slowly we will wander down to Wangaratta in Victoria for the first big stopover. This will be early September. Friends and family will join us here in a ritual of days of copious food, drinks, cakes, games, activities and celebration.

Then we’ll recover with a wander along the Murray River, into South Australia provided the border is open. After exploring the Eyre Peninsular, Swifty will have her first experience of the Nullarbor. In November we will put down roots in Margaret River in WA for another celebration, then head further south to Albany for the summer. But that’s not even half of the trip.

I plan to take the usual quantity of photos (many!!), perhaps take a few movies, and write about the trip in this blog. But I also plan to do a portraiture/story board project about interesting characters we meet along the way. I want to capture a single, simple, revealing, beautiful portrait of the person, or it could be a couple or family group, and write a paragraph with their story. It’s about time I used my qualification and years of experience as a Portraitist. This I will post on my blog with their permission. It will become a snapshot portfolio of Australians in 2021/2.

I will endeavour to use the local indigenous name for the land we travel on as I write the blog.

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Cheers for now

Jenny and Nick and Swifty