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25.01.2022 A blog post, from us! Fancy that. And a bad limerick to introduce it... There was a mad pair on Jagungal Whose decision to climb was a bungle The hail was a blow... Visibility was low But that mountain is a loveable mongrel. See more

25.01.2022 every time I see this photo I fall in love again... . . . ...we met this Gum-topped Stringybark (Eucalpytus delegatensis) in Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park, not far from Echo Point on Lake St Clair. We had a fabulous winter, and this snowy walk was one of many highlights. ... Discover Tasmania #discovertasmania Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service #bigtrees and check out Forestry Watch for some great citizen science/conservation work. #SaveTreeSaveNature See more

25.01.2022 I know, you never intended to be in this world. But you’re in it all the same. So why not get started immediately. I mean, belonging to it. There is so much to admire, to weep over.... - Mary Oliver, US Poet Just re-sharing this poem that featured in our last blogpost (and another pic from the fabulous Sentinel Range). As one of our astute readers said: It's such a beautiful reminder of the life we have to live.

25.01.2022 "I am here not only to evade for a while the clamour and filth and confusion of the cultural apparatus but also to confront, immediately and directly, if it is possible, the bare bones of existence." - Edward Abbey Pic: Lake Newdegate, Mt Field National park

25.01.2022 Winter postcard #1 I can tell you now if you want to get the deep external/internal, multilayered, multi-dimensional beauty of a place (its smell, its sounds, its feel against your skin) you must get out and walk into it, not sit at home looking at a postcard. But here’s one anyway. Greetings from awildland - Mt Field National Park, Tasmania... Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service Discover Tasmania

24.01.2022 Paradise or 'industrial tourism'. Who chooses? Our latest blog is up. .... . . . Bob Brown Foundation The Wilderness Society Tasmania

23.01.2022 Sunset, Western Arthur Range, Tasmania

21.01.2022 The Blade. Tasman National Park.

21.01.2022 You cannot stand on sky, but you can be in it, as you can be in water or in sleep. Not like birds, of course, who own itBut this will do, this walking with only one’s head in the clouds. - Mark Tredinnick, writer, poet #livingintheweather #frenchmanscap #skylove video from December 2019. Revisit our Frenchmans Cap blog here: https://awildland.blogspot.com//the-monarch-of-tasmanias-w... Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service Discover Tasmania

20.01.2022 Our June blog is up - brought to you by the word Tumblagooda, the colour red and the number 1.

19.01.2022 This picture shows what we love about the forest - how it entices you to want to explore deeper. What you might find if you push past the wet foliage and keep walking into the unknown.....#nofences #wherebeautyabounds #lungsoftheearth #rainforest #antarcticbeech #gondwana #lamingtonnationalpark #qld

19.01.2022 "My environment began to teach me about itself without my full awareness of the process. It became an animate being of which I was a part." The above quote is by Robyn Davidson, from her timeless book, 'Tracks'.

17.01.2022 Mt Geryon from The Acropolis, Cradle Mountain Lake St Clair National Park, Tasmania. #monochromemagic #onefortheanselladamsfans

17.01.2022 Continuing on a bit of a theme about guarding wilderness (ie our last blog about the Tyndalls), by chance our latest blog is about climbing The Sentinel Range. Read it here: Standing Guard - The Sentinel Range. Lots of beautiful pictures, poetry and interesting links to follow!

16.01.2022 Hot off the press. We've just come in off a 5 day adventure in Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park. Little bit of off-track challenge, a Tasmanian heatwave (25 degrees!) and spectacular scenery. Not that we're big fans of social media hashtags but #wishyouwereherewednesday.

15.01.2022 The Fortress, Grampians National Park, Victoria, were named by explorer Major Thomas Mitchell who named the mountains after scaling Mt Duwil (Mt William), the highest peak, in 1836. He chose 'the Grampians' after the rugged region in his native Scotland and yet historical records show that in fact Mitchell was, unlike other explorers, virtually alone in his time in recognising and wishing to perpetuate a sense of prior Aboriginal ownership of Australia. As surveyor-general of... the colony, he admonished his survey staff that they should be ‘particular in noting the native names of as many places as you can in your mapThe natives can furnish you with names for every flat and almost every hillthe names of new parishes will also be taken in most cases from the local names of the natives’. Mitchell was a key player in retaining Aboriginal names for 70 per cent of Australia’s four million place names (p.13, The Explorers, Edited and Introduced by Tim Flannery, Text Publishing, 1998). The Grampians are known as Gariwerd. #alwayswasalwayswillbe #aboriginallands #sharedheritage #oldestcontinuingcultureonearth #righthere

15.01.2022 One of the most common doubts about heading off-track to a rugged, unknown destination is - will we find a campsite. What if there is nowhere to pitch the tent at the end of the day? What if I have to push on past fatigue to find enough space, a flat spot, water, protection from wind? But there is always somewhere to pitch a tent, or roll out a bivy, or string a tarp. Two people do not need much space in a wilderness. #wilderness #getoutthere #offtrack #Ilovetrees

13.01.2022 One thing hasn't changed the beauty that this miraculous planet of ours keeps on giving. The colours of stone, of sunlight and storms. And the sounds - of surf breaking, birds of course; gulls calling on the wing, cockatoos flocking to feed on coastal banksias. It gives us air, of course, and water to drink. How are we going to repay such daily offerings?

12.01.2022 On the eve of winter we get all nostalgic about summer. The latest blog is now available... #mountainmemories #highcountry #asitwas

12.01.2022 Walking in places where few other people venture, we often run into ourselves when we return along the same route - maybe a footprint in the mud, a branch broken, small signs of our passing a week or a few days earlier. If the time were longer, if it were months or year between visits, nature would smother our hopefully small movements. Grass at a campsite springs back up, leaves and twigs cover any footprints. If we do break a branch we first apologise, then try to return it... to a natural looking loss. Hiding the evidence? Sort of. In some places we wipe our foot prints clean before we leave, taking some fallen foliage and sweeping it across the ground of sandy caves and riverside camps. Sound silly? Excessive? All of those things, perhaps. But - places sometimes seem to ask this of us, a small gesture to the landscape’s privacy and primacy. - this camp site, secret location, Carnarvon Gorge National Park

09.01.2022 Is it time to come out yet. I'm hungry....for adventure!

09.01.2022 Our last/latest adventure brought incredible peace. So removed, isolated, and immersive. The terrain was easy to walk through, although the ground was uneven. Skinks basked on top of the grass and rocks. A low shrub, the mountain geebung (Persoonia gunnii) was flowering and its fragrance was kind of sweet but pungent. A brown falcon hunted each afternoon on the plateau. Green rosellas even came this high to roost at night in the pencil pines beside the lake. Each morning we had our cuppas while still ensconced in our warm sleeping bags; tent doors open watching the sun rise. In the nearby lake, a platypus surfaced and its wet fur reflected the morning light like it was a silver jewel moving across the dark water.

08.01.2022 Blog. Up now. Check it out. Clouds. Flowers. Dolerite. And, one King. Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park Discover Tasmania

08.01.2022 In our last blog there was mention of an ancient, impressive snow gum that we met while walking to Mt Twynam in Kosciuszko National Park. No picture of the tree made it into the blog, so we've decided to share something here, along with this quote: "sometimes some people begin to look at a gum and find that they can never completely get their gaze away from this group of trees again. They might be scientists, or explorers, foresters or conservationists, artists or writers, but they all become eucalyptographers, caught up with work that is inextricably eucalyptic. They take the trees on; they champion them." - Ashley Hay, Gum, 2002

08.01.2022 found this leftover winter postcard in the draw...sending it to you now. If it's hot where you are, hopefully this will cool you down. xx #lakestclairtasmania #winterwonderland #echohut #saveoursnowdays #actagainstclimatechange

06.01.2022 "We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls." Bob Brown - Memo for a Saner World 2004.

05.01.2022 I was an open schlerophyll woodland sort of person...a lover of blazing sharpness where light spilled like acid and the nostrils clogged with dust or stung with bushfire smoke...My moods were attuned to bleary haze, purple distances, drought years and down hanging leaf shades of eucalyptus, acacia, casuarina - silver, grey-green and earth-red. Nondescriptness secreting beauty and a subtle, immense variety were the sights in which I was weaned. - Roger McDonald, The Tree in Changing Light

04.01.2022 Happy winter solstice adventurers! May your days be longer than your nights and your nights be filled with dreams. Discover Tasmania ABC Hobart #derwentriver #wintersolstice #seasonofthebigsleeps #justaphonephoto

02.01.2022 the latest issue of the free Bushwalker mag (here: http://emag.bushwalk.com/BWA202006.pdf) includes a story about one of our MOST AMAZING wilderness experiences, with BUTTERFLIES ! Not just one butterfly, but more than 14,500 butterflies; in one spot, in one afternoon, in one mass of beauty and wonder. The encounter took place in the fabulous Oxley Wild Rivers National Park in NSW and was truly unforgettable .... download the mag and have a read #imagineaworldwithoutbutterflies #seeingisnotobserving #butterflies NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service New England High Country Armidale Outdoors

02.01.2022 Feast your eyes on this...the latest blog is up... #waterfalls #cabinfever #nationalparks #lovenature #protectourwaterways NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service Tasmania Parks and Wildlife Service

01.01.2022 This tree must have seen so many storms, sunrises; centuries of small creatures coming and going, roosting and feeding in its branches and clumsily hugging it’s feet in wonder. This tree is safe in Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair National Park but in Tasmania they still cut down trees as big as this. You can learn about that at https://www.bobbrown.org.au/nf_updates. But for some unforgettable tree beauty make time to watch the stunning film treeline (link below). Afterwards..., you will want to find a tree to hug. https://youtu.be/YCEaYInJbos #welovetrees #treehuggers #oldgrowth #tasmania Bob Brown Foundation The Wilderness Society