Nomadics
Lost in the highlands
May 2, 2011 | Russ Graysonby Russ Grayson. First published 2001.
“TURN 180 degrees to your right now. We are on the other side of the button grass plain. Look for our orange marker”.
Figure in a landscape—walking the Tasmanian high country
May 2, 2011 | Russ Graysonby Russ Grayson. Originally published 2002.
TO CLIMB or not? That was the debate I held with myself on the walk up from the Waldheim road head.
To the summit, one last time
May 2, 2011 | Russ Grayson… Russ Grayson. Originally published 2002.
Early summer, 1980…
“Here, take hold of this”. Peter leans out and offers the end of a length of nylon climber’s tape to Robert. “Pass it to Keith”.
Home from the mountains— a stopover in Ouse
December 2, 2010 | Russ GraysonI remember her then. Checked wool shirt of the kind favored by bushwalkers and outdoor types. Warm wool trousers, dull khaki in colour. Petite wire framed glasses balanced on a delicate nose. Blonde hair tied back I’m bunches. Chunky leather boots. Pack on back.
Troubled paradise: Byron Bay faces change
July 31, 2010 | Russ GraysonTHE MAN ON THE END STALL is selling longans—fruits whose hard, brittle skin you break with your teeth before chewing the juicy white pulp off the large black seed. At $8 a kilo, you are presented with a piece of branch with the tan, centimeter-wide fruits dangling from it. Clearly, these fruits are freshly picked.
Two families, two lives… so similar but so different
July 18, 2010 | Russ GraysonHOW DO YOU ACCOUNT for the different way that life turns out for people, even when they share much in common?
Solitary, long ago
September 28, 2009 | Russ GraysonStory & photos: Russ Grayson
IT’S PERVERSE, REALLY. To walk these mountains you start by descending rather than climbing.
Less a town than a landscape
September 22, 2009 | Russ GraysonWATCH OUT for the sea eagle, he said… it perches on the old dead tree that sticks out from the cliff…
Going to Launceston? Just don’t breathe too deep
July 11, 2009 | Russ Grayson | 3 CommentsCAUGHT BETWEEN rapacious extractive industry on one hand and the sublime beauty of nature on the other, Tasmania remains a paradox in the Australian political landscape. Now, there’s something else to add to the offshore contradiction that is this southern island state—Launceston’s air.
City in memory
December 29, 2008 | Russ GraysonI’VE WALKED THESE STREETS BEFORE, a long time ago… through Prince’s Square, along Charles Street, turn into The Quadrant then into Brisbane Street and up to City Park.
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