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Category: Nomadics

Lost in the highlands

It was in 1978, after a late night start and very little sleep, that a search party set out on

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Figure in a landscape—walking the Tasmanian high country

Solitude and reverence for the mountains experienced on a solo walk along the Overland Track in the Spring of 1980

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To the summit, one last time

It was a grand weekend adventure to climb Mt Anne but, unknown to the climbers, it was to be their

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Home from the mountains— a stopover in Ouse

I remember her then. Checked wool shirt of the kind favored by bushwalkers and outdoor types. Warm wool trousers, dull

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Troubled paradise: Byron Bay faces change

This is an article I wrote around 2005 and which was republished in Brisbane's Courier Mail newspaper. It was stimulated

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Two families, two lives… so similar but so different

HOW DO YOU ACCOUNT for the different way that life turns out for people, even when they share much in

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Solitary, long ago

Story & photos: Russ Grayson IT’S PERVERSE, REALLY. To walk  these mountains you start by descending rather than climbing.

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Less a town than a landscape

It's not the town, its the landscape it is set in that gives the Byron region its spectacular character. This

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Going to Launceston? Just don’t breathe too deep

CAUGHT BETWEEN rapacious extractive industry on one hand and the sublime beauty of nature on the other, Tasmania remains a

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City in memory

We inhabit our own geographies... geographies formed by patterns of movement from home to work, from home to our recreational

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