For as long as I can remember I've loved the outdoors, traveling, and art!Must have been because I was conceived on gorgeous Mooloolaba Beach, Queensland (a fact that only came to light in 2006! no wonder it feels so much like home there!).I've spent much of my life traveling the country either by the sky, road, or sea. My father joined the Royal Australian Air Force when I was 5 and the family was posted to several Australian towns and overseas to Penang, Malaysia.Growing up I vowed I wanted to stay in one place, yet when I became an adult, the travel bug hit, and I went off again, traveling to many Queensland islands and settling for a time in Hobart, Tasmania.My dream was one day to sail a yacht in the Whitsunday Islands, in Queensl, and in 1998 I bought my first yacht and settled back in Mooloolaba.A few years later in 2000, I competed in an international yacht race as the navigator and 'radio chick' from Brisbane to the Solomon Islands.We came second! I spent the next few months sailing back from the Solomon Islands (when war broke out and we had to evacuate) and cruising the Queensland coast along with three of my five children.That's when I fell in love with the ocean and its teeming life, beaches, and shells came to the fore.Many times on those voyages between ports I saw sights that were of wonderment and complete joy, but having no means of recording those beautiful scenes I committed them to memory.Having spent 2 years sailing I decided to return to Mooloolaba with the children and enrolled in an Arts degree.I received a High Distinction studying Photography at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Victoria, yet never completed the Arts degree as I had found my passion in photography.My tutors encouraged me to just keep practicing and practicing and follow my heart with my photography.I decided to capture beautiful images of this planet and Australia in particular, showing the world just how beautiful this country is, as well as encouraging others through my work to look after our precious home.Since 2005, I've been traveling all over Australia, experiencing so many wondrous sights and scenes.I have been a tour guide through the Kimberley and along the Western Australian coast and am now a Kakadu National Park tour guide, having settled in Darwin in June 2011.I encourage you wholeheartedly to enjoy my photographs of this amazing sunburnt country and I hope that one day, you will come on one of my photography tours to capture wondrous scenes of your very own.