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Ula Majewski

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Stories. Photos. Ocean. Climate justice. Going surfboarding ☀️ Working on sweet stuff @patagoniaaus @surfingworld @teamcleantas 🌊 Wadawurrung Country

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Tuesday, Wadawurrung Country. How the day began, how it ended 💛 by @ulski

Coupla years back 😁 Happiest of birthdays to my gorgeous bestie Katto! We have had few thousand wild and extraordinary adventures and the most excellent life together, ever since we met back in the day at Middle Park kinder ❤️

Love you more than the whole world, @georgie.walker.knits ! It always feels strange when we’re not together on birthday week, but I can’t wait to see you for some delightful belated pop pops 🥂 (and next year we will be in Japan!)

Have the best evo, darlink heart xxx by @ulski

Got my vote in right on the wire last night for Australia’s Top 100 Books 🎉

Gee whiz, this is a tricky enterprise. I had to stick to fiction otherwise my little brain may have exploded (although some extraordinary poetry has crept in). It’s been made even more tricky in the middle of house moving as most of my books are still in boxes. No handy stacks to help the old decision-making faculties this time round.

My list has morphed and chopped and changed a lot over the past few weeks. This is where it was last night, in no particular order (today it would certainly have shifted again). I wish we got 100 votes 😁

Dropbear – Evelyn Araluen
Death of a River Guide – Richard Flanagan
The Last Magician – Janette Turner Hospital
Too Much Lip – Melissa Lucashenko
Truth – Peter Temple
Foreign Soil – Maxine Beneba Clarke
The Service of Clouds – Delia Falconer
The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
Monkey Grip – Helen Garner
Boy Swallows Universe – Trent Dalton

The wireless coverage of so many wonderful literary luminaries talking about their own iconic work and their favourite books has been the best – from the Women’s Weekly Cake Book to Hannah Kent on Storm Boy to Tim Winton on Cloudstreet. I am a longtime Radio National tragic, but even more so in the past couple of months. I also have a massive list of new books to read ha ha!

Can’t wait for the countdown on 17 + 18 October 😍 Thank you @abcradionational legends for all your amazing work to create this wonderful thing.

#RadioNational #Top100Books #Top100AustralianBooks by @ulski

How springtime began, here on beautiful Wadawurrung Country ☀️ by @ulski

@ulski in Autumn ! by @ulski

Monday morning blues 🐋

Three humpbacks off the coast of Turrakana on their long voyage south, looking out for icebergs and a big feed of krill. All you could hear was the ocean colliding with kelp and cliff, the sounds of great whale exhalations. Much human excitement, also.

Thank you @pennicottjourneys legends for the most extraordinary beginning to the week 💛 by @ulski

The Rose on film, with goat 💛 We had an uproarious time celebrating this glorious punk’s birthday last night out at @banksia.kellevie and now my head feels like it has five goats dancing the tango on it 😂

Photo from last August, after a beautiful lunch in the sunshine (with epic goat halloumi) at Eddy and Jane’s sweet farm ❤️ @ed_on_the_hill @hairy_tail_farm

🎞️ processed at @hillvalephoto by @ulski

Little detour up north this week, surrounded by brilliant, curious minds and big hearts. Even snuck in a little lighthouse wandering loop and a cheeky slide in warmmmmm water with beautiful whales breaching just out the back! Feeling like the luckiest duck out 💛

Arakwal Country 🐚 by @ulski

Saltwater, rearranging itself💧 by @ulski

Last July, this July 😁 From 29 degrees to 13.4 in the ocean is a bit of a leap, but the happy levels are pretty much on an even par. Just a bit more rubber chucked in at this end 🐧

Still equally in love with my beautiful Frida that the legends @coreygrahamshapes @joymillsurfboards made for me. She is an absolute beaut, in all kinds of climates 💛

Indo magic at amazing, locally owned dream stay @roxiessurfcampmentawai - photo by lege heads @jessirebel or @griff.k.atie (my brain was addled by too much sunshine and one million coconuts - I can’t remember!) by @ulski

Orbital in Kiritimati 🌔

I started reading Samantha Harvey’s extraordinary novel late last year, on the verandah at London Point. Late to the party, as always. Low tide times in the sweet, slow late arvos, heat wobbles on the water. A tiny speck of a human on a tiny speck of atoll, way out there in the middle of the ocean.

I read it again just recently, in all this winter quiet. Wandering outside in the night-time frost. Breathing out little clouds. Looking up.

It’s even more amazing, the second time round. We discussed it the other night, at our small, mighty and very odd book club. The wonderful @andiehamblin made us do space pictionary, in honour of Mister Squiggle of 93 Crater Crescent, with coloured pencils clamped between our teeth (but luckily not up our noses). My team did not win ha ha.

But we (mostly) all agreed that this book is remarkable and exquisite and astonishing. The most beautiful love letter to our beautiful earth.

If you haven’t read it yet, go down to your local bookstore and then find a lovely chair to curl up in. It might not be as wonderful as Arls and Jakey’s tropical rocker, but the book will be.

Thanks for sharing the best reading nook out, @arlenebax @yousmilecolours ❤️ by @ulski

Wintertime.

Wadawurrung Country 🐚 by @ulski