LISTENING

snakadaktal

playing tonight at Alhambra Lounge in Brisbane.

LISTENING

the royal dealers

collaboration between Band of Frequencies (Sol Carroll and OJ Newcomb) and Fingers Malone.

truly epic. it will take you on an instrumental voyage through time, space and utopia.

words can not properly explain. click play and drift away... 

LINK/INSPIRATION

Wearable Bliss

The best 21st birthday present I can imagine is a hug from a cloud...

Seeing that I don't have wings to get me to said clouds, my dearest sister gifted me with the next best thing; this gorgeous t-shirt from Vegan Era!

Wearing this shirt is as blissful as I imagine a cloud hug could be. It's soft and light, and easy on this dear planet of ours. Made from 70% organic bamboo and 30% organic cotton and created with hands who are ensured a decent wage and working conditions; can this t-shirt possibly get any better?

Yes it can! Purchases like this t-shirt from the Vegan Era online store* go directly to funding the Vegan Era crew's efforts to promote, educate and inspire the world about the benefits of living a vegan lifestyle to self, animal brethren and Mother Earth.

It was a thought well thought the day that Vegan Era co-founder David Rafter brought this blissful beauty into the world!

*Vegan Era online shop and 'Bamboo Freedom' found here.

EXPLORATION

Noosa North Shore

View of Noosa Heads from the '1st Cutting'

A soggy family having lunch by the road

Female Red-winged Fairy Wren frolicking in the Lantana

Male Red-winged Fairy Wren flaunting his style

A slightly damp male Fig Bird feasting on Macaranga for b'fast

Saturated Diamond Dove

Last night I camped in the dunes on Noosa North Shore. This is the first time I'd been to the north side of the Noosa River, and I've fallen in love. 

It is an amazing place, very peaceful and pristine. A lot of the original vegetation and wildlife still exists. Saved from development by a dedicated group of conservationists who, about 50 years ago, lobbied strongly to the Government to have the area and surrounds listed as National Park. They succeeded, and today, parts of Noosa North Shore such as the Arthur Harold Nature Refuge, create an amazing biodiversity extension to the Great Sandy National Park*.

Visiting this place is A MUST, only a very short but beautiful car ferry ride across the Noosa River from Tewantin, and you've been repelled back into time. Where society's influences slip away and Mother Earth gently pulls you into her loving embrace, where everything and everyone lives in unity.

*The Great Sandy National Park starts to the North of Noosa North Shore and extends all the way up to Rainbow Beach and Inskip Point, including the gorgeous Noosa Everglades (Upper Noosa River) and the World Heritage Listed Fraser Island which lies north of Inskip Point.

LINK/INSPIRATION

Seminar: Live Vegan, Change Your World

www.veganera.com

Held at Kind Living Cafe in Maleny

  

David, Lucy (Kind Living), Trudi and Amanda - Gorgeous people

My new friends David and Amanda are doing amazing work to bring love and compassion to the forefront of society. Promoting themselves as Vegan Era; David and Amanda are dedicating themselves to spreading the word about the benefits of a vegan diet to self, community and the earth. Offering their personal journeys to the world, for the benefit of the greater good, along with their vegan canine friend/child Trudi, David and Amanda are spreading the love throughout this mighty land of ours.

QUOTE

When we tug at a single thing in nature, 

we find it attached to the rest of the world.

- JOHN MUIR

QUOTE

For one human being

to love another:

that is perhaps

the most difficult

of all tasks,

the ultimate, the

last test and proof,

the work for which

all other work

is but preparation.

- RAINER MARIA RILKE

LINK/VIDEO

A Murmuration of starlings 

Mind-numbing, heart-achingly amazing!

LINK/VIDEO

Untitled from Jon Frank on Vimeo.

this stuff's awesome

LISTENING

The Rubens

"The Rubens are a 4 piece band from Menangle, NSW consisting of 3 brothers and a childhood friend on the drums. Forming in February 2011 the boys are pushing out blues tunes soaked in copious amounts of soul"

Visit their Triple J Unearthed profile here