This video had somehow disappeared from my page so I have resurrected it. Somehow I managed to video most of the trip with my late friend Steve Cleaver with a non-waterproof very old video camera. There is no editing. It is all just as I filmed and narrated it. Nonetheless I think you will enjoy […]
Della: ‘The new archway is beginning to settle in and look much less stark with the lower plantings taking off now and the roses starting to climb the uprights. What a difference a few months make in the garden (especially when spring and summer are also involved!) Thanks Steve Jones for the structural work and
What a wonderful ruin – like something from Ozymandias. Construction of this weir at the junction of the Mitchell and Stoney creek commenced in 1881 but the weir was destroyed by floods in 1893 soon after completion and has never been repaired. Two other attempts to dam the river at Billy Goat Bend and Tabberabbera
I spent a wonderfully restful night under the huge walnut tree lulled to sleep by the noise of the river rolling past – and surrounded by deer! The walnuts are a great magnet to them. They clearly check them daily to see whether a leaf or a nut has been discarded for their delectation. I
I canoed this lovely section of river from Angusvale Camping Ground to the Glenaladale Bridge over the last three days in my Alpacka packraft. The river heights were at the bottom end of this section’s canoeability (see note below) and the smoke from the huge bushfires the environmentalists are having in East Gippsland spoiled the
‘Kim Hollows reprises his role as Executive Producer for the first time since creating Ata Whenua (Shadowlands). This is a story of men and machines, of incredible daring and unprecedented ingenuity set in the dangerous and unpredictable New Zealand mountains. Over a 20 year period these helicopter pioneers turned a national ecological disaster into a
US$38 each with free shipping (to Australia). US76 per pair. What’s not to like about this? I received a pair for Xmas. Stripped of the strap and its aluminium screw mine weighed 128 grams each on my scale and fold down to just under 50 cm (20”) – 51/110cm according to the Specs. They come
You might have noticed it in the cover picture below or this post, that I seemed to have something hanging from my pack as we walked in to Pangboche: It is a DIY mobile clothes line which I am drying one of my handkerchiefs on. If you walk the EBC some time you will find
Della: ‘A warning to those considering hiking Tasmania’s South Coast Track. It is now a full week since we reached Cockle Creek after completing the South Coast Track wilderness walk. After a week, I finally feel a little recovered and therefore equal to the task of recording the experience, so that others contemplating the walk
As you know we were recently in Nepal, hiking the Everest Base Camp Trail (see links below). Here are a just a few snippets of video which did not seem to have a home anywhere else, but which I though .you might enjoy. (I have lots more, but I’ll try not to bore you). Della
