Bonnie Nicol
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From Canberra to Tasmania with a mission
Environment From Canberra to Tasmania with a mission It was summer, 2019, and Tyla Bickley, a Canberra-based adventure cyclist and environmental studies major, was three days into a 10-day solo cycling trip through Tasmania’s west coast. Earlier in the year, she had organised and led a multi-day group cycle of the Tasmanian Trail for Radical Adventure Riders, a US-based organisation that promotes inclusivity among women and genderqueer cyclists.
On the trail of the Jukace, Poland’s magical New Year marauders
Art & Culture Poland Dispatch The Jukace — otherwise known as the Forefathers — are heralds of the ancient Slavic-pagan masquerade, Gody Żywieckie. Unique to the Polish city of Żywiec, they bring happiness, health, and good fortune, filling New Year’s Day with the clang of cowbells and the gunshot-like crack of their whips. It is an hour before midnight on New Year’s Eve in the small city of Żywiec, nestled at the base of the Beskid Mountains in southern Poland.
Meet the Woman on a Quest to Attend Every Wondrous British Festival
The Shetland Islands' Up Helly Aa, held annually in January in Lerwick, is one of hundreds of often-fiery festivals historian Averil Shepherd has attended and documented. In This Story On Midsummer’s Eve, the central square in Whalton, a small village in Northern England, glows red with fire. The Baal Fire tradition—locals build a bonfire and light it up—is intended to bless the season’s crops and has continued uninterrupted for centuries.
The Australian Town That’s Gone Batty Over Its Bats
The bat swivels around to regard us, eyes wide and confused, wings folded protectively across its salt-and-pepper body. One of its wings is mangled—the result of getting entangled in fruit netting. “Bat wing membranes are like skin, it will heal and grow back,” says Jan Virgo, animal rights activist and founder of the non-profit Colac Otway Bat Shelter. But Dixie, as Virgo has named her, has another problem. She’s lactating and her baby is missing.
An Australian Town's Identity Rests on a Ship That May Not Exist
The afternoon is overcast, the ocean churning, between Port Fairy and Warrnambool, on the Shipwreck Coast of Victoria, Australia. A man and woman carry shovels and a metal detector along the beach. I ask if they are looking for Warrnambool’s notorious wreck, the Mahogany Ship. Without hesitation, the man answers: “I’ve been searching for the Mahogany Ship for 15 years.” The Shipwreck Coast is a dramatic 80-mile stretch of jagged cliffs and deep gorges, limestone formations and towering dunes.
When a Town Council and a Sci-fi Museum Went to War Over a Dalek
It was a cold January morning in 2019 when an unfamiliar car rolled into Allendale, a small village nestled within the North Pennines in Northumberland County, England.
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