"Fleurieu Living Magazine features the best in food and wine, homes and gardens, growers, producers, accommodation and destinations — as well as artists,writers and designers working and living on South Australia's Fleurieu Peninsula and Kangaroo Island. Published quarterly, Fleurieu Living Magazine is available throughout Adelaide and the Fleurieu via newsagents, wineries, restaurants cafés and B&Bs."
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Welcome to FLM
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New Locales • Spring’s the perfect time to find new favourites on the Fleurieu.
Faces and places
ARTIST PROFILE: Richard Maurovic • Artist Richard Maurovic doesn’t like the term ‘self-taught’. ‘It seems to lack credibility,’ he says. He’s adopted its synonym ‘autodidact’ as shorthand for his particular mode of study, which has seen hard work and an unwavering commitment level maintained over thirty years build into a solid career.
An alternate reality • ‘Well that’s going to be a bit boring,’ comes the quick reply from a local wine executive when I ask how his work has changed during COVID. ‘What would I be doing if COVID didn’t happen? Going to work. What am I doing now we are living with COVID? Going to work!’
Road to recovery • In early February this year, Kangaroo Island tour guide Nikki Redman took her mum to have a look at some of the fireaffected areas on the Island. Both are long time nature lovers and locals. They were amazed and fascinated by the regrowth that was already emerging in the ravaged landscape. ‘It was interesting to see that mum was so interested,’ Nikki shares. And she wondered – wouldn’t others be interested too?
Tall Bike Stan • Somewhere between a penny-farthing and a BMX, the tall bike is not unlike a jungle gym on wheels. It’s a sight seldom forgotten, and on the Fleurieu there’s one man known for riding high on these metal giants. ‘Tall Bike Stan’ Lowe’s custom bikes – some tall, others stretched long – appear to defy bike-building logic. But the twenty-three year old has become wellversed in the mechanics of bicycles, and the frames he fabricates are comparable to artistic metal sculptures.
Farmers Market: adapting to change • On 21 March 2020, uncertainty was in the air. We were six days into a declared public health emergency in South Australia. Toilet paper was now a precious resource, our conversations were newly littered with the phrase ‘social distancing’ and I was wondering whether to make my weekly trip to the Willunga Farmers Market (WFM). Habit – and the ability to shop in the fresh air – won out, with two concessions. First, I was alone, because two young children will touch everything, pandemic or not. Secondly, I was armed with hand sanitiser, readily accessible for frequent dousings.
Home among the gum trees • Jill Dowd still gets a funny feeling when she turns onto the dirt road that leads to the new home she has built with husband Brendan. ‘It sounds a bit odd, but I just get this really warm and fuzzy feeling,’ she smiles. ‘And that was what it was like as we drove up the first time and we saw it.’ It was March when they first turned inland off Waitpinga Road to view the 120-acre block. ‘We saw it at the worst time of the year,’ she says. ‘It was so dry around, but we loved it.’
The tractor trove • Richard Wright greets me with a finger-crunching handshake and a warm grin at the tall gates to Wright’s Tractor Sales, Service and Wrecking....