Nomadics
Found: the book that influenced a generation
January 8, 2014 | Russ Grayson | One CommentA surprise discovery in a mountain hut closes the circle of time…Read More
High on a mountain, a little stone hut
January 8, 2014 | Russ Grayson | 2 CommentsHigh on a Tasmanian mountain there’s a hidden hut, so late one day we went to look for it….Read More
Otago
January 4, 2014 | Russ Grayson | One CommentShipping has played an important part in Tasmanian history but it’s rare to find shipping and literature in a rusting hulk…Read More
Solomons journeys: Just a little wet underfoot
October 19, 2013 | Russ GraysonNegotiating the road to the Kastom Gaden Association’s office and farm can be an aquatic experience after rain…Read More
A domed home in the hills
August 31, 2013 | Russ GraysonAS 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 … Read More
Return — hut on a point
April 9, 2013 | Russ GraysonIT’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 … Read More
All that remains… ruins on a Tasmanian mountainside
April 8, 2013 | Russ GraysonALL 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 … Read More
Three huts on a trail
August 1, 2012 | Russ GraysonTHE HUT WAS LARGER than I remembered. Longer too. And was that metal table there when last I came this way decades ago?
Town in the mountains
July 31, 2011 | Russ GraysonNOT LONG after writing this in 2007, Rosemary Morrow left Katoomba’s cold winters for the subtropical warmth of the Coffs Harbour area. A few years passed, then I got word that she had returned to the Blue Mountains. She is still there.
Byron Bay: Discovered and rediscovered
July 31, 2011 | Russ GraysonTRAVEL IS SLOWER on this winding byway through patches of dark forest and out into open farmland.
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