Halcyon Daze

April 26, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

Sumptuously decorated walls have never been on my list of must-haves for a beach holiday hotel, but after a night at Halcyon House on the Tweed Coast, I’m thinking I might need to rewrite my list. The 21-room boutique hotel is a white and indigo gem nestled among the pandanus palms, midway between the Gold […]

Leeches and laughs: walking at O’Reilly’s

February 4, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

It’s all about the journey on a walk through the Lamington National Park.

Climbing Mt Warning

February 25, 2011.Reading time 1 minute.

Mt Warning (Wollumbin) in the NSW Tweed Valley, stands at 1157 metres, the plug of a once massive volcano that erupted some 20 million years. The 4.4 km track to the summit is an unrelenting and steep walk that finishes with a 100 metre stretch of bare rock with chains. The path is rough in […]

UPDATE: As the Crow Flies is now available from Australian Plays. I am excited to reveal that my first play – As the Crow Flies, is soon to be published by Australian Plays. The play for secondary school students is a modern adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth and explores the themes of ambition, consequences and identity. It […]

Into the wild – rediscovering Borneo

Twenty five years ago I made my first trip to Borneo – a rugged island in South East Asia, famous for its rainforests and wildlife. My last visit started my fascination with orangutans and inspired The Call of the Wild (Choose Your Own Ever After) about a school girl who has to make a choice […]

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Julie Fison

Tag: nsw

Halcyon Daze

Leeches and laughs: walking at O’Reilly’s

Climbing Mt Warning