Larapinta Trail – Days 5-7: Section 9 – Ormiston Gorge to Serpentine Chalet Dam

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

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

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