Anne Farrell is an amateur photographer and keen historian whose maternal grandparents were travellers all through the outback of New South Wales in the 1930s. Granny Smith, Essie, wrote two manuscripts recounting their travels and they lay unread and unloved until retyped over the last few years. This book is the first of them. Anne keeps a daily diary and photographs regularly while at home or travelling Australia. Essie's second manuscript, River Magic is in the pipeline.