Wilderness

The bogs of heaven

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 ...

Environment

Scourge purge

by Helena Gjone

24 Feb 2024

In July 2023, my eco-anxiety was triggered by one of Hobart’s warmest winters on record ...

Wilderness

Wandering, wondering

by Don Defenderfer

11 Feb 2024

Which of the three capes is your favourite: Cape Raoul, Cape Pillar or Cape Hauy?

Wilderness

THE ABELS: Arm River

by Rob Shaw

03 Feb 2024

Being widely promoted overseas means the Overland Track tends to be frequented by so many mainland and international travellers that it sometimes resembles a major airport more than a wilderness hike ...

Wilderness

Mt Ida

by Craig Searle

07 Jan 2024

What do Mt Ida and Craig Sarle have in common? Both are to be found in remote parts of Tasmania ...

Forty South

The peripatetic pancake men

by Craig Searle

27 Nov 2023

Of all the people I have crossed paths with, when it comes to amazing, inspiring and unique, no one comes close to the peripatetic pancake men ...

Science

Norma the Tarkine leaf-walker

by Simon Grove

25 Nov 2023

When my mother-in-law, Norma, passed away, part of her legacy was a second-hand campervan ...

Wilderness

Our pantheon of pines

by Sonia Strong

14 Oct 2023

Don’t tell the mainlanders, but for a couple of months it can get uncomfortably hot down here on the outskirts of Antarctica ...