Currently Reading: Nick Jaffe – The Years Thunder By | Sophie Green – The Inaugral Meeting of the Fairvale Ladies Book Club | James Clear – Atomic Habits | Karen Joy Fowler – We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves We spent our rest day at Ormiston Gorge doing all those necessary things that long distance … Continue reading Larapinta Trail – Days 5-7: Section 9 – Ormiston Gorge to Serpentine Chalet Dam
Larapinta Trail – Days 1-4: Sections 12, 11 & 10 – Redbank Gorge to Ormiston Gorge
The time had finally come to embark on our long anticipated hike. Laura and I first hiked together on the Overland Track in 2006, and had floated the idea of the Larapinta as early as 2011, but it took us until 2022 to get serious about the planning. We now live in different states, and … Continue reading Larapinta Trail – Days 1-4: Sections 12, 11 & 10 – Redbank Gorge to Ormiston Gorge
The Larapinta Trail – Northern Territory
Hiking the Larapinta Trail. The Larapinta is one of Australia's premier long distance walking tracks, stretching for 223km through Arrernte Country, west of Alice Springs.
Hiking the Ralphs Falls Circuit and The Blue Tier’s Big Tree
Currently Reading: Cassandra Pybus – Truganini | Celeste Ng – Little Fires Everywhere | Richard Flanagan – Death of a River Guide | Kyle Perry – The Bluffs Still off the reading wagon - the TBR pile is currently a little neglected but it is not forgotten... Ralphs Falls is listed as one of Tassie's … Continue reading Hiking the Ralphs Falls Circuit and The Blue Tier’s Big Tree
Roadtripping Tasmania’s Northeast Corner
Currently Reading: Cassandra Pybus – Truganini | Celeste Ng –Little Fires Everywhere | Richard Flanagan – Death of a River Guide | Kyle Perry –The Bluffs Not much reading going on, I have to admit... it's summer and the sun is shining and the outside is calling... Over the course of the last few months, … Continue reading Roadtripping Tasmania’s Northeast Corner
Tarkine Drive – Northwest Tasmania
Currently Reading: Cassandra Pybus – Truganini | Celeste Ng – Little Fires Everywhere | Richard Flanagan – Death of a River Guide Late last year I took a drive to the north-west coast, spending two nights in the Tarkine region. Two nights is simply not enough. Following are some pictures from that trip. Welcome to … Continue reading Tarkine Drive – Northwest Tasmania
Three Capes Track – Tasman Peninsula
Currently Reading: Cassandra Pybus – Truganini | Richard Flanagan – Death of a River Guide | Favel Parrett: When the Night Comes This article first appeared as a travel blog entry on the Allgoods Website on 17 November 2020www.allgoods.com.au Are you looking for an adventure to shake off those lockdown blues? Would you like to … Continue reading Three Capes Track – Tasman Peninsula
East Coast Tasmania – Some Pictorial Highlights from those last days of Freedom
Currently Reading: Donna Tartt – The Goldfinch | Victor Steffensen – Fire Country We are now four weeks into lockdown here in Tassie - a similar timeline to that being experienced by people all over the world. The curve appears to be flattening in Australia, so we're feeling cautiously optimistic that there may be the … Continue reading East Coast Tasmania – Some Pictorial Highlights from those last days of Freedom
Maria Island
Currently Reading: Trent Dalton – Boy Swallows Universe | Alice Bishop – A Constant Hum | Victor Steffensen – Fire Country Mum and I are into our tenth day of quarantine since she arrived home from New Zealand on the 22nd March. In the weeks before social distancing became the new normal, I spent ten … Continue reading Maria Island
West Coast Tasmania
Currently Reading: Trent Dalton – Boy Swallows Universe | Alice Bishop – A Constant Hum | Victor Steffensen – Fire Country | Ian McEwan – Sweet Tooth My primary reason for return to Tas this time round was to join a small group of family and close friends for a journey up the Gordon River … Continue reading West Coast Tasmania
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