The author is renowned for her romance novels, yet she remains refreshingly grounded in reality.
When bestselling author Di Morrissey finished high school, she was at a bit of a loose end. Her mother could not afford to send her to university, so to make some money Morrissey fed the sharks at Sydney’s Manly Aquarium. She’d had just one hour’s training in scuba diving before gamely entering the tank, where she had an encounter with an aggressive grey nurse who she dealt with via a firm poke on the snout.
As an adult, she enjoyed undertaking demanding physical experiences, such as climbing to the top of a huge waterfall in Guyana in South America just so she could observe a rare species of frog in its natural habitat. “We camped and slept in hammocks and in the morning saw the paw prints of jaguars under them,” she says, thrilled by the adventure that was part of the research for her novel‘We camped and slept in hammocks and in the morning saw the paw prints of jaguars under them.
She was undaunted by threats and lawsuits, and is now campaigning to try to protect the koala colony close to her property outside Wingham, near Taree, under pressure from habitat destruction and trucks travelling on her once-quiet dirt road. “Those of us who live here always stop if a koala is crossing the road, but those giant vehicles don’t.
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