A Tasmanian journey
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
A stroll in the bush
January 2, 2014 | Russ GraysonA Tasmanian journey…
IF THERE IS one good thing that Hobart has (let’s be clear: it has more than one) it’s access to the surrounding countryside and bushland. And… it has a 1250 metre-high mountain within the city limits. That’s … 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
Journey through a defile
April 8, 2013 | Russ GraysonWHEN YOU next visit Launceston, put on your walking shoes, stretch your muscles and take the well-trodden walk from the edge of the city into First Basin. Irrespective of whether you take the low, easy track or the steeper, rougher … 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
Contentment… a moment by a lake
January 20, 2013 | Russ GraysonSOMETIMES, you see things that somehow symbolise an idea. They might be fleeting sightings yet it may be their brevity that makes them so poignant because there is no time for enquiry to dispel impression.
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?
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”.
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