Found: the book that influenced a generation
A surprise discovery in a mountain hut closes the circle of time...
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High on a mountain, a little stone hut
High on a Tasmanian mountain there's a hidden hut, so late one day we went to look for it....
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Solomons journeys: Just a little wet underfoot
Negotiating the road to the Kastom Gaden Association's office and farm can be an aquatic experience after rain...
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A domed home in the hills
AS it’s the first day of Spring 2013 I thought I might commemorate the passing of the cold months (which weren’t really all that cold at all) with a picture from my film photography days, a photo now some decades old that raises recollections of a memorable night in the winter mountains. For photographers who […]
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Return — hut on a point
IT’S BEEN DECADES, I thought as the driver throttled back the engines to approach the jetty. Decades… and there was no jetty, no fast catamaran then… just an old wooden launch captained by a man in late middle age. Not the roar of powerful outboards then, just the putt-putt-putt of an old diesel. Today’s catamaran […]
Read MoreAll that remains… ruins on a Tasmanian mountainside
ALL THAT REMAINS is a bit of stone work where the house once was. And a few pieces of iron rusted by the decades since the fires of ’67 devoured the building and the rest of the farm — one of them looks like it was once part of a pot-bellied stove. The others — […]
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Three huts on a trail
Walk to places you haven't been for decades and you walk into memory. This was my experience on the Lenah Valley Track high above Hobart...
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Town in the mountains
Katoomba... an architectural medley, a melange of styles and people... a town in the mountains home to an extraordinary woman...
Read MoreByron Bay: Discovered and rediscovered
Some places are special and they stay in mind as a mental image that you recall later. Doing this has little to do with logic and more to do with feeling, with emotion. For me, one of those places was a roadside on a long downhill stretch the takes you from the escarpment to the coastal plain...
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