Small town off the highway
Wauchope, a minor country town off the highway.
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Hidden path to a cove’s history
The old shacks at Crater Cove are a reminder of the days when life was somehow simpler and our needs fewer. They housed an eclectic group of people...
Read MoreThe Byron Bay blues
Too many too often — that's what some say about tourists in the idyllic — or maybe not-so-idyllic — Byron Bay...
Read MoreByron backroads
It's magic country, those rolling hills of the Byron Bay hinterland, and dotted here an there among their folds are people who have moved from city to country in search of a new life...
Read MoreMisadventure on the way to the Walls
Tasmania, some time in the 1970s. CLAAAANG! Someone slams the car door and the party sets off into the early evening gloom of the rainforest. A short slope leads from the forestry road to the Fish River.
Read MoreMountains, memory and the nature of experience
PERHAPS I DIDN’T KNOW how to enjoy hardship. Perhaps I wasn’t cut out for this sort of thing. Perhaps the authors of those adventure books I had read were misrepresenting the experience.
Read MoreComfortable mudbrick on the Southern Highlands
First published 2003 by Russ Grayson. IT IS WINTER on the Southern Highlands of NSW, a time when the warmth of the sun is weak and the cold south-westerly blows in from the snowfields. Yet, no matter how cold it is outside, to step into the yellow-orange mudbrick glow of this house is to enter […]
Read MoreAll that remains… ghosts of former times at Bonnie Vale
On the southern edge of Sydney, on the banks of the Hacking River, is the remnant of a once-popular holiday town of fibro shacks...
Read MoreJust a minor incident
Tasmania, the late 1970s. UP AND UP. Through a dark, wet forest of towering trees. Along a rough track that never saw the work of a maintenance gang. Squishing through muddy patches, slowing as we climb the steeper sections. All familiar stuff to mountain walkers.
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