Saturday. Market day. Its about 3 ks from home. Out over Kalimna Point, down into Happy Valley and along Forest creek, then a quick wander up through the houses to coffee and company at Wesley Hill. The week’s craziness dissipates with every step, evaporating and blowing away. Another wave of clouds come through and I…
I recently heard a great Radio National program featuring English travel writer Robert Macfarlane. His new book The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot is the third in a trilogy about “landscape and the human heart”. As mentioned on RN, “in it, Robert Macfarlane travels the ancient walking tracks of Britain” and he spoke of…
My abiding, perhaps overwhelming, interest is the mountain landscapes of Tasmania and south eastern Australia. And I find it endlessly fascinating to see how people interact with landscapes that they love and how they build cultures around those places. So my latest little on-line project is the Mountain Journal, a space to explore the connection…
I grew up in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne. As the years went by, I saw the remaining woodlands, orchards, pine plantations and pasture largely disappear under low density housing, dirt roads turn to asphalted streets, even that open country ‘over the river’ – towards Boronia and Bayswater – slowly shrink and be covered…
an appreciation of the Bogong bioregion 