It Never Rains 0n The Nullarbor
I can't work Geoff out sometimes.
I really can't. He keeps taking me to the weirdest places since he moved in with mum and me. I guess they weren't so weird at first. The zoo was okay I suppose, and even the planetarium was all right.
But I don't know what's got into him now. I mean, who goes camping on the Nullarbor? It just doesn't make any sense, does it? It's the sort of thing you would do if you had to, like if you were driving to Perth because you didn't have the money to fly, but that's about it. Not Geoff though, he actually wanted the two of us to come to the Plain and camp for a few nights. Now, if that's not weird, I don't know what is.
Illustration by Kim Gamble
I really can't. He keeps taking me to the weirdest places since he moved in with mum and me. I guess they weren't so weird at first. The zoo was okay I suppose, and even the planetarium was all right.
But I don't know what's got into him now. I mean, who goes camping on the Nullarbor? It just doesn't make any sense, does it? It's the sort of thing you would do if you had to, like if you were driving to Perth because you didn't have the money to fly, but that's about it. Not Geoff though, he actually wanted the two of us to come to the Plain and camp for a few nights. Now, if that's not weird, I don't know what is.
Illustration by Kim Gamble
Publication History
"It Never Rains 0n The Nullarbor" has been published three times. The first time in Puffinalia, The Puffin Club Magazine (Penguin), in August 1990. The second publication was as the cover story in the NSW Department of Education Orbit School Magazine in 1991, featuring a series of illustrations by Kim Gamble. The third was in the Desert Centred anthology published by Jacaranda in 1992.
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