Imagine waking up early one morning and quietly drinking your coffee as you watch the sun rise over the Australian bush. The parrots who normally squawk and chatter at this hour of the day are silent, there is no traffic on the highway in the distance and the dogs are silent and cowering in their kennels. What happens next turns Jenn's whole world in a different direction. Her normal quiet existence on the farm is now over. Jenn becomes one of the leaders of a rag, tag band of travellers retreating from the disaster in the Outback and assists in guiding them to her home village on the coast....

The Outback Exodus story continues in Settled on the Coast. Our survivors reach their destination and begin to build their new lives. Each day brings new challenges in a destroyed world. The challenge of bringing together such a diverse group and melding it with the villagers of Gordon brings Jenn, Gavin and the members of the committee closer together. Excerpt from the opening of Chapter One We stand on the lookout at the edge of the escarpment looking out across the flood plain to the coast and the village that was my home as a child. The scene before us is much changed from the last time I...

Sea Eagles and Quiet Hours consists of poetry written about life, love, grief, nature in all her glory and just the ordinary things that happen in the day of an extra ordinary life. My days are filled with love, laughter, nature and family and from them comes the inspiration that flows with my poetry. I have an affinity with nature and the Australian weather and many of my poems are based on fact and the things I see around me in the changing clouds, the beautiful sea, the birds, animals and just quietly being. Many of the latest series of poems have been written after walking on the...