Dick's Blog

When I was a young boy, my father, who had been a regular swimmer around Port Phillip Bay, near Melbourne, in the days of his youth, used t...

The recent success of the Underbelly television series has focussed attention on a rather strange period in the history of Sydney, when th...

Rock fishing is a pleasurable pastime in the right conditions, with the added bonus of bringing home a few tasty fish...

A tsunami is a wave, or train of waves that have been generated by a large scale displacement the ocean. This is usually caused by an under...

In any top-notch athletics meeting, one of the blue riband events has always been the high jump and the world record for this event has bee...

The Australian Football League Grand Final: Weather has played a big part in some of the great finals matches of the past. In the amazin...

During the nineteenth century, before the time of organised weather forecast and warning services, shipwreck was an all too frequent occurre...