Meeting Anne

Life on the road. It’s a romantic notion. It is also reality for a growing number of people. I got an insight into it when I stopped to talk with Anne…Read More

An end to predictable trail breakfasts

At last, we have something to break the predictabiity of breakfast on the trail…Read More

Across the Fish, a journey into memory

IN SPATE late that day The Fish River At the base of the escarpment Up which we ascended through forest Dripping with moisture From recent rains. Last I came this way There was only a slippery log Upon which to … Read More

Edible landscaping comes to Brisbane’s Southbank

A walk along Brisbane’s Southbank reveals an edible garden…Read More

The freedom of the hills: One fine weekend in winter, long ago

To journey into the mountains is experience the freedom of the hills. That is so even when winter’s snow carpets the ground in its bright, glare whiteness…Read More

A new apple future for Tasmania – any hope?

MY ARRIVAL in Tasmania coincided with the collapse of the state’s apple industry. I remember it… farmers in despair as their orchards rapidly fell in value, people expressing their fears about the state’s farming future, lots of apples but … Read More

In the scrub, by the bay — a rediscovery

IT WAS AT THE END of 2104, December, when I accidentally rediscovered the Tyler family graves.

My discovery of them was back in the 1970s when I was with a group bushwalking down that way. The only person I recall … Read More

From mountain to museum

I made these photos at Launceston’s Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery at Inveresk last week. They show some of the artefacts used by a Tasmanian Bushwalker of the 1960s and 1970s.Read More