colddiesel
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How do you work best, in the noise and bustle, or somewhere quiet away from it all. Can you shut out the world or do you have to shut yourself away from it.
I wondered, because about 15 years ago I discovered the ultimate retreat, and I just got back from my 5th or 6th trip there a couple of weeks back. An old aquaintance has a vast cattle lease, well over 500,000 acres in the semi desert of North Western Australia.
Gold prospectors mined some short adits into low hills near a dry river bed. They were prospecting early last century. Long abandoned, the cattle station owner built a very basic cabin onto the front of a couple of the adits and advertised. "Get away from it all - basic accomodation- If during your stay you see another human being or catch a fish, you get a 100% refund."
It's great, you walk in knowing you're carrying all your rations and your swag for the stay. There is a piece of steel to put over a fire for cooking and that's about it. You spend most days just walking in the bush and sitting around thinking -no mobile phone, no computer, (no access) no electricity, no showers, no plumbing at all. The only concesssion to modernity is an emergency beacon which you have to hit once a day to say you're ok.
The point is, that day and night for the whole of the stay (mine was 10 days) you're completely on your own. It's not just totally relaxing, it gives you a chance to think, to sort your own mind out.
Do you think an environment like this would suit you or help your writing? The station owner says that almost 20% of first timers signal to be taken out after 3 or 4 days. How do you reckon you would cope?
I wondered, because about 15 years ago I discovered the ultimate retreat, and I just got back from my 5th or 6th trip there a couple of weeks back. An old aquaintance has a vast cattle lease, well over 500,000 acres in the semi desert of North Western Australia.
Gold prospectors mined some short adits into low hills near a dry river bed. They were prospecting early last century. Long abandoned, the cattle station owner built a very basic cabin onto the front of a couple of the adits and advertised. "Get away from it all - basic accomodation- If during your stay you see another human being or catch a fish, you get a 100% refund."
It's great, you walk in knowing you're carrying all your rations and your swag for the stay. There is a piece of steel to put over a fire for cooking and that's about it. You spend most days just walking in the bush and sitting around thinking -no mobile phone, no computer, (no access) no electricity, no showers, no plumbing at all. The only concesssion to modernity is an emergency beacon which you have to hit once a day to say you're ok.
The point is, that day and night for the whole of the stay (mine was 10 days) you're completely on your own. It's not just totally relaxing, it gives you a chance to think, to sort your own mind out.
Do you think an environment like this would suit you or help your writing? The station owner says that almost 20% of first timers signal to be taken out after 3 or 4 days. How do you reckon you would cope?