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On foot to Waterfall Bay
On foot to Waterfall Bay
Waterfall Bay is an easy, short walk on Tasmania’s Tasman Peninsula. The peninsula offers a number of walks spanning easy to longer to…
Russ Grayson
Jun 11
Trail food: a never-ending quest
Trail food: a never-ending quest
The search for lightweight, compact trail foods leads us to the Patagonia store.
Russ Grayson
Jun 11
The supermarket: a food source for multi-day hiking?
The supermarket: a food source for multi-day hiking?
Prices quoted are Australian dollars.
Russ Grayson
Oct 26, 2021
Maria Island meanderings
Maria Island meanderings
“Look… look!”. It was the eight year old grandkid. “They’re running.” She was pointing at two wombats running past at speed. Running and…
Russ Grayson
Oct 5, 2021
Being radical through repair
Being radical through repair
STRAIGHTENING my bookshelf recently — okay, that’s not an all-too-frequent event — I came across a booklet that I picked up a couple years…
Russ Grayson
Sep 8, 2021
No metropolis
No metropolis
LAKE LEAKE is no metropolis. What it is, is a dam with a large catchment lake amid the forested hills, and a shack settlement. There’s a…
Russ Grayson
Aug 22, 2021
Southwards bound and looking back
Southwards bound and looking back
Reflections on our life on the road in 2019 and into 2020.
Russ Grayson
Jul 10, 2021
Cold, wet and hypothermic
Cold, wet and hypothermic
THE DOOR opens. We look up.
Russ Grayson
Jul 1, 2021
On the road with Red Gypsy Lauren
On the road with Red Gypsy Lauren
First published summer 2014.
Russ Grayson
May 25, 2021
By foot along the cliffs
By foot along the cliffs
Microadventures in the Hobart region
Russ Grayson
May 7, 2021
Not your usual swamp
Not your usual swamp
TAKE a riverside home, take the wetland along the river banks and convert it to demonstrate appropriate technologies and other structures…
Russ Grayson
May 2, 2021
On the road: mobile dystopia and resilience
On the road: mobile dystopia and resilience
I FIRST BECAME ACQUAINTED with nomadism through reading about it. That started decades ago when, by chance and good fortune, I picked a…
Russ Grayson
Apr 26, 2021
Two women on a journey
Two women on a journey
“We’re from Tasmania,” the slightly built one said. “We camp in a tent. Fortunately, with this rain, it is a weatherproof tent”.
Russ Grayson
Apr 19, 2021
The glaciated land
The glaciated land
ONE of the things I like about walking in the mountains is reading the landscape. I have no formal qualifications in geography, however my…
Russ Grayson
Apr 7, 2021
Small van, big travel
Small van, big travel
Some road trippers take house-sized caravans. Others take the smallest of vans. We encounteed the latter in the Levin Canyon carpark.
Russ Grayson
Mar 17, 2021
Gorge in the city
Gorge in the city
IN THE SHADE of a ginko (Ginko biloba) tree, Fi contemplates the landscape unaware that a large and voracious female peacock and chick are…
Russ Grayson
Mar 13, 2021
Adventure alone
Adventure alone
“YOU SHOULDN’T do that.”
Russ Grayson
Feb 13, 2021
In Tasmania
In Tasmania
CAR’S HEADLIGHTS had been turned on and clusters of commuters, hands thrust deep into pockets and heads bowed, scurried homeward along The…
Russ Grayson
Feb 4, 2021
Memories of Peter
Memories of Peter
I’VE BEEN THINKING or Peter. It’s now a couple years since my friend, Yvonne, spoke of him. Neither she nor I had seen him for quite some…
Russ Grayson
Feb 3, 2021
The shaper
The shaper
JUST FOLLOW the road out of town and take the turnoff, she said. Okay, we’ll do that I say, knowing how easily we could get lost following…
Russ Grayson
Jan 20, 2021
Patterns of foam
Patterns of foam
WATER flows and foams and forms moving patterns of white as it comes down the South Esk.
Russ Grayson
Dec 30, 2020
Up and down the Zig Zag Track
Up and down the Zig Zag Track
Walking with children on Tasmania’s Kunanyi-Mt Wellington proved a fine challenge easily accomplished.
Russ Grayson
Dec 28, 2020
Grand adventures on wild rivers
Grand adventures on wild rivers
In the days when the rivers ran wild, in the days before the dams and the crowds, there were the intrepid few who dared Tasmania’s wild…
Russ Grayson
Nov 27, 2020
A letter to Patagonia
A letter to Patagonia
In a letter to adventure equipment company, Patagonia, I have a word or two to say about one of their products.
Russ Grayson
Nov 11, 2020
Urban walk reveals a rugged coastline
Urban walk reveals a rugged coastline
In Port Macquarie and feel like a little exercise to compensate for last night’s too-big a dinner and too-many a glass of wine? Well…
Russ Grayson
Nov 9, 2020
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