Yongala News Archive

by Trevor Jackson There’s a genuine steamships’ telegraph in my loungeroom. Salvaged from the depths. It’s in pretty good condition considering the time it spent…

by Trevor Jackson On Spoilsport, there’s an unwritten mindset. It’s not in any manual and never spoken of too much. It’s this… Go further. Do…

by Trevor Jackson “As soon as I gave my daughters their phones, I lost them. They disappeared into their rooms and came back 5 years…

by Captain Trevor Jackson When I was a boy, my life was straight out of an adventure novel. We lived a few hundred metres from…

by Captain Trevor Jackson I turned all the lights off, just to take it all in. It was spooky calm and overcast. Spoilsports compass read…

Ashmore reef. I have to confess, I don’t know anything at all about Ashmore Reef. I don’t even know exactly where it is. It’s UP…

by Captain Trevor Jackson I was at the checkout in Woolies a while back, getting frustrated. There was this woman in front of me unpacking…

by Captain Trevor Jackson There are several iconic wildlife interactions in the world that simply transcend reality. By that I mean, while you’re there, it…

She was the only child out of 30, to survive. Despite endless speculation, she lived her entire life never really knowing who she was. Her…

by Captain Trevor Jackson You know how you’ve got those odd moments in your life that you remember as if they were yesterday … but…