The fourth installment of my post Slow Walking NZ’s South Coast Track. We had intended to break our journey at the Percy Burn hut, making for two reasonably comfortable days but unfortunately the hut is now rented by the Hump Ridge people and locked (though it can be booked), so that we had another long […]
An amazing ‘ancient’ stone monument. Without visiting ancient Egypt or similar you will never see anything like this anywhere in Australia, so the trip is definitely worth the effort. Glenaladale Weir (on the Mitchell-Wonnagatta River, Gippsland Vic) was constructed c 1891-2 and destroyed by floods within only about a year. Some history is available on
A tent that is also a tarp and a hammock shelter. This tent has been evolving in my head for a number of years and I realise that some of you are impatient that you have not been able to buy one or other of its iterations. However your wait might soon be over. Be
I have completed sewing a silnylon version of my 10 x 10 tent (actually 3 x 3 metres) out of some 1.25 0oz/yd2 (43 gsm) silnylon I sourced from China for US$2.50/metre. The key to understanding how it works is where to put the tie-outs. The photos below show it erected as a tent (for
This is the third instalment of my post Slow Walking NZ’s South Coast Track. After we left the Waitutu Corporation’s wonderful Long Point Hut we intended to have a short day and be at the Waitutu Lodge within 4-5 hours (which we should have been). We were at the Angus Burn in around three hours
This is a continuation of the post Slow Walking NZ’s South Coast Track. After we left the Waitutu River on the South Coast Track we planned to detour South before the Angus Burn to spend a night at the Long Point Hut – and perhaps visit its extensive grassy sandhills and lighthouse, a red deer
I have spent the past four days walking ~6okm alongside the Wonnagatta River within the trackless Mt Darling Wilderness with my lovely dog, Honey as (illegal) company. At 76 a 20 km stretch which used to take me five hours is now taking me six (with a 10 kg+ pack) but it is much less
It’s months ago now (I have fallen behind on my posts) when Della and I took three delightful days rafting a section of the Mitchell River (Gippsland) back in autumn (April), of course with the dogs. Last time I pack-rafted this section (by myself Mitchell River Overnight) I took only two days but the double
As I have said many times, you don’t have to break the bank to go hiking. I have been eyeing off various Dyneema packs on eg Aliexpress for years but recently (it was my birthday – 76. Who’d have thought?) I decided to buy yet another unnecessary pack. The ‘choice’ was between a ‘conventional’ (ie
We have been having some predation of our Finnsheep lambs by wedge-tailed eagles which is costing us a lot of money – and anguish. The other morning as I went around the lambs I saw one flying higher than our largest gums with a lamb’s head in in its claws. I clapped my hands and
