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.
Books Read
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
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
Van Life 2020
Currently Reading: Trent Dalton – Boy Swallows Universe | Margaret Atwood – The Testaments Teaching is over for another year. Well, I still have 150 x 2500 word essays to mark (small thing!) but this time I wrote the questions, so I am kind of intrigued to see what the students have come up with. … Continue reading Van Life 2020
Thesis life gives way to this novel concept called free time
Currently Reading: Alexis Wright – The Swan Book | William Faulkner – The Sound and the Fury | Jennifer Egan – The Invisible Circus I have been hermiting for the past several weeks as I went about the final stages of my 6.5 year PhD candidature journey. Hence the lack of recent posts. About a … Continue reading Thesis life gives way to this novel concept called free time
Grand Canyon – Blackheath, Blue Mtns
Currently reading: Sir Isaac Newton – Opticks | David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest (in it for the long haul…) My working weeks are pretty full on at the moment as I ramp up for the final months of thesis life, so I'm trying to get as much hiking in on the weekends as I … Continue reading Grand Canyon – Blackheath, Blue Mtns
Horseshoe Falls Reserve – North Hazelbrook
Currently reading: Jeff Greenwald – Shopping for Buddhas (still) | René Taton and Curtis Wilson (Eds.) – The General History of Astronomy Vol. 2: Planetary Astronomy from the Renaissance to the rise of Astrophysics (dabbling for thesis) | Sir Isaac Newton – Opticks | David Foster Wallace – Infinite Jest (this one could take a … Continue reading Horseshoe Falls Reserve – North Hazelbrook
Inspiration Point
Currently reading: Levison Wood - Walking the Himalayas | Cristina Garcia - The Lady Matador's Hotel We've had some fantastic summer storms these past few weeks. I took a drive to Cahills Lookout on Cliff Drive in Katoomba one afternoon to enjoy the massing of metallic blue clouds and the ever-changing display of light and … Continue reading Inspiration Point