Spring 2016

Fleurieu Living Magazine

The best of South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island.

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Welcome to FLM
Well, winter is over and what a doozy it was. All of the rain was good news for our water tanks, dams and most plant life. Reports say it was also the windiest winter on record in thirty years – so that was not so good for some plant life. The sourso
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Winds Of Change
Photographs by Heidi Linehan. So busy were the weeks after Tarik Marco and Sandrine Maltret opened their second French eatery in Willunga, that the couple neglected to tend to the colour-filled pot-plants gracing Le Mistral’s window sills. ‘It was dr
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Family Living At Its Finest
Photographs by Robert Geh. Envious yet? You will be when you discover there is much more to this property than meets the eye. Sarah McDonald and her husband Ben moved into their Port Noarlunga property just six months ago, and it has been built with
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Kings Of Rock
Photographs by Angela Lisman. Nina Keath has a rockin’ good time with a group of Fleurieu stonemasons. Darryl Lindsay is a registered stonemason working across the Fleurieu. After incongruously studying visual arts and bricklaying, he discovered his
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TASTE THE SEASON: Peas (also known as Pisum sativum)
Story by Leonie Porter-Nocella. Although we usually source peas from the freezer cabinet these days, they actually do have a season. You poor people who’ve never sat at a table shelling peas for dinner don’t know what you’ve missed: no pea ever taste
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The Dirt
Photographs by Holly Dauk. Tappanappa. I can’t get the name out of my head as we bump along Tappanappa Road. Well, out of my mouth really; a rally of small sounds between lip and tongue. I must appear afflicted. Thankfully, I’m with the in-laws and t
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McLaren Vale Motel
Photographs by Angela Lisman. The McLaren Vale Motel shows us that generational business commitment is not limited to the wine industry In the last couple of years in our region, we have seen several celebrations of long term, generational continuat
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Portrait Of A Soil Maker
This article was written by student Ben Robinson.Photographs by Angela Lisman. ‘I’m not a winemaker,’ says Graham Ward. However, you only need a glance at his resume and accomplishments in his seventy-four years to rebut this claim. But he persists:
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Stoked
Photographs by Che Chorley. Spending hours on the beach was the norm for our family. A short walk down the dirt road, through the sand hills and over the amazing pebbles and the coastline would open up: The oldies fishing, we kids swimming, snorkelin
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Celebration on Kangaroo Island
Two of Kangaroo Island’s premier cultural events – Art Feast and Feastival – are joining together on a trial basis this year to create Kangaroo Island Art FEASTival. The new event will be running right through the first two months of spring, with th
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Step Into Spring With Maximum Vitality
The good news is it’s possible to rid your body of toxins and restore alkalinity by eating right. According to ancient Ayurvedic practices, Spring is the best time of year to detox and reset. As the weather warms, shedding the excess kapha dosha, or
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Eat, Drink And Enjoy The View At The Goolwa Wharf Precinct
Photographs by Heidi Linehan. Where the mighty River Murray ends its journey into the sea, a final bend lent itself to the creation of a town. It’s named after the unique course of the river: ‘Goolwa’, in the local Ngarrindjeri language means ‘Elbow.
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The Dream Maker
On my way to my first Love Local Fleurieu event, I brace myself for an all too familiar networking function; full of terse smiles, platitudes and empty promises to catch up. But when I arrive at Oliver’s Taranga winery at McLaren Vale on an icycold F
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Creating A Life Of Her Own
Photographs by Heidi Linehan. Jill Stone spent three long years, during her thirties, sitting at a public service desk in a windowless room ‘hating most minutes.’ Her life since then has been one long liberating rebellion against walls and desks of m
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Pam’s World
Photograph by Angela Lisman. Federal Minister for Education, Malcolm Fraser, has just decreed that all state universities will need to be co-educational from 1974. Pam is hoping to take up winemaking at Roseworthy College as a postgraduate, transferr
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Najobe
Together, father and son forged a successful business partnership based on a commitment to providing a pure ‘paddock to plate’ experience, one that remains true to the source. But, it is Ben’s commitment ‘to do it really, really well’ that truly sets
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Fleurieu Weddings
Photographs by Angie Doughty-Garside and Sabine Minks. After a chance meeting and an engaging conversation four years ago, Kristen and Phil realised they lived on the same street. Who could waste such an opportunity to become friends? Shortly after,
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Featured Contributors
Esther Thorn Esther Thorn believes everyone has a story and is passionate about helping people tell theirs. Esther has worked as a journalist for the past 16 years in print, radio and television but is most inspired by the stories she writes for Fleu
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Gavin Wanganeen
Wanganeen is a former Australian rules footballer turned contemporary Indigenous artist, living and working in South Australia. Descended from the Kokatha people of the Western Desert of South Australia, Wanganeen is a role model within the Indigenou
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Book Reviews
by Eowyn Ivey Published by Headline Publishing ISBN 9781472208613 $32.99 Eowyn Ivey’s latest novel is set in the harsh, life-threatening landscape of Alaska during the late nineteenth century. The desolate country that follows the Wolverine River nor
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Tastings
Wine reviews by Richard Souter. 2016 Oliver’s Taranga Fiano Fiano is relatively new variety to Australia, and originates from the Campania region of Italy. This 2016 release from Oliver’s Taranga is pale straw in colour, with an aroma of cloudy apple
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Big House Full Of ‘Real Stuff’ – And Dreams
Photographs by Robert Geh. We are sitting at the dining table looking out at the Steer’s splendid garden. ‘It is not a wild permaculture garden, but it is planned with those principles,’ says Mel. Everything in the garden has a place and a purpose. T
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Linking Art With The Landscape
Photographs by Heidi Linehan. Answer: A house of great simplicity and integrity, which nestles in the landscape like an extension of the rocky escarpment on which it sits. Totally hidden from the road, high above the undulating hills south of Yankali

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