Lost in the highlands

May 2, 2011 A Tasmanian journey

It was in 1978, after a late night start and very little sleep, that a search party set out on Tasmania's Central Plateau looking for a missing boy...

Figure in a landscape—walking the Tasmanian high country

May 2, 2011 A Tasmanian journey

Solitude and reverence for the mountains experienced on a solo walk along the Overland Track in the Spring of 1980 is tinged with a sense that the journey…

To the summit, one last time

May 2, 2011 A Tasmanian journey

It was a grand weekend adventure to climb Mt Anne but, unknown to the climbers, it was to be their last as a group of friends...

First jump

May 1, 2011 Memoir

It's a long time ago now, it seems, but my first jump went well though my second went a little less so...

Permaculture—time to scale up?

April 22, 2011 Permaculture

Is the mindset of permaculture practitioners the biggest barrier to the further penetration of their ideas into society?

A remarkable book and a remarkable person

April 3, 2011 Memoir

Meetings with remarkable people and with remarkable books can leave an influence long after they have gone from your life. So it was that, somewhere in the middle…