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Travelling Bruny
Travelling Bruny
IT WILL COST YOU around AU$45 return to take your vehicle on the ferry from Kettering to Bruny Island (pensioner fare about $10 less). Once…
Russ Grayson
Dec 7, 2022
An afternoon walk, a wrong turn and a stone hut
An afternoon walk, a wrong turn and a stone hut
JUNCTION CABIN, the direction sign proclaimed, its arrow pointing down the track beside the gully. So off we go, not knowing that the…
Russ Grayson
Sep 8, 2022
The mobile life calls…
The mobile life calls…
Family on the road
Russ Grayson
Sep 4, 2022
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PLACES
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
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
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
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REVIEW
Review: Biolite’s Campstove
Review: Biolite’s Campstove
THE BIOLITE CAMPSTOVE is a handy doo-dah for car campers who like sitting around an open wood fire when you can’t find enough wood to start…
Russ Grayson
Nov 16, 2022
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
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
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PEOPLE
The gardener and the camper
The gardener and the camper
Paul
Russ Grayson
Jun 15, 2020
Two wheels on the road
Two wheels on the road
“That’s interesting”, I thought as the bike and trailer stopped at the start of the track to the beach. Then another whizzed by and pulled…
Russ Grayson
Jan 13, 2020
Heading north
Heading north
FOR Kate and Lewis, it’s the seasons which set direction and destination.
Russ Grayson
Dec 22, 2019
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