Wilderness

THE ABELS: A high and hidden treasure

03 May 2025

If such a formation was situated in almost any other developed country, it would surely be a massive tourist destination ...

The Patch

Return December

by Peter Grant

02 May 2025

Among Elvis Presley’s many gifts, the articulation of lyrics wasn’t foremost ...

Books and writing

Wilkinson’s easier ways

by Rob Shaw

05 Apr 2025

Whisper it gently, but Bill Wilkinson may be mellowing.

Books and writing

Mountain Stories

by Rob Shaw

02 Apr 2025

Spend any time in Tasmania’s remote high country and there is a tendency to wonder whether you might be among the first people to step foot there ...

Wilderness

The modest, secretive gentleman adventurer

by Chris Champion

29 Mar 2025

Tony Robertson knows how to keep a secret ...

Wilderness

The track winding back

by Chris Champion

29 Mar 2025

One day many years ago, an Ulverstone man tried to reach the top of a Tasmanian mountain ...

Wilderness

Peak performers

by Craig Searle

01 Feb 2025

There are two Mt Camerons in Tasmania ...

Wilderness

The bogs of heaven

by Peter Grant

07 Dec 2024

In 1678, when John Bunyan was looking for the kind of landscape in which the hero of The Pilgrim’s Progress might experience despair ...

Wilderness

Flying potatoes and wandering albatross

by Bronwyn Scanlon

07 Dec 2024

It’s a bit mad, I’ll be the first to admit it ...

Wilderness

THE ABELS: Mount Emmett and Barn Bluff

by Rob Shaw

14 Sep 2024

It had felt like the archetypal Tasmanian wilderness moment ...

Photography

The true pioneer of Tasmanian wilderness photography

by Rob Shaw

16 Jul 2024

The legacy of pioneering Tasmanian photographer Stephen Spurling III is as unprecedented as it is unrecognised ...

Science

The fall and rise of the Pedder galaxias

by Premek Hamr

13 Jul 2024

Lake Pedder was unique, a jewel in the crown of what later was named the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area ...

Wilderness

LOBSTER TALES: Big, black and beautiful

by Terry Mulhern

13 Apr 2024

We get on well with the farmers whose property wraps around our seven hectares of paradise ...

Wilderness

The wonder of walking, and a little tail envy

by Peter Grant

30 Mar 2024

As Rebecca Solnit put it, when you walk you move at the speed of thought ...