Swill magazine Issue #1, 2022
Lunch culture rules on Hawaii’s ‘Big Island’
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By 11.20am people are bouncing on their toes in the long line to build a bento box. There are a couple of chairs inside but to take one is to sit cheek-to-cheek with queueing butts. “What’s good? Oh, it’s all good...” says a Hilo local ahead of me, peering through the perspex sneeze screen. She recommends the lau lau (banana leaf-wrapped fish, pork, rice and other stuff), describes the fiddlehead fern ina warabi salad as ‘asparagus-ish’, and gently ixnays the kinpira gobo, aka burdockroot (“some people like it.”)
Qantas magazine September 2020
Sea change
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BYRON BAY MAY BE THE BRIGHTEST JEWEL BUT BEACHSIDE GEMS GLIMMER ALL ALONG THE FAR NORTH COAST OF NEW SOUTH WALES.
Photographed by Kara Rosenlund
Two schooners and six oysters at the bistro later, we wander into town. There’s the Mexican place, the Indian place, the pizza place and the golf club. A backpackers, a skatepark and a caravan and camping park by the sheltered harbour. We return every “g’day”, “evening” and “hey’’ along the way.
Qantas magazine June 2021
Queenstown
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Qantas magazine September 2022
Go big
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SUN, SURF, SLEEPING AT THE EDGE OF A VOLCANO AND... SNOW. ON HAWAII’S BIG ISLAND, FAITH CAMPBELL EXPLORES THE UNEXPECTED (BUT THE SHAKAS REMAIN).
Photographed by Erin Kunkel
