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The Five Mile

Leave a Comment / Australia, Backpacking, Camping, Coastal Areas of Victoria, Gippsland, Hiking, Victoria / admin

One of Gippsland’s ‘hidden gems’. This sand track lets you access Venus Bay Beach about 8 km out from Tarwin Lower on the Walkerville Rd. You have to be really looking out for it, or you will miss it. At the beginning there is a gate (locked in winter I imagine) when the track would […]

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DIY Simple Hearing Aid Safety Clip

2 Comments / Backpacking, Canoeing, DIY, Electronics, Hiking, How To Guide, Hunting / admin

This is the simplest and cheapest way to make sure you don’t lose your hearing aids on a hiking or canoeing trip (such as this). Works with any BTE (Behind the ear) type hearing aid. Bulldog clip, (dyneema) string, two simple slip knots. Attach clip to back of shirt collar. Cost: cents. Cheers. 3 grams

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How Green Was My River

4 Comments / Australia, Canoeing, Gippsland, Mountain Areas of Victoria, Thompson River, Uncategorized, Victoria / admin

Packrafting the Thomson River Gippsland Day #2: After a delightful night’s sleep on My Neoair (Womens) mat on the soft warm sand snuggled in my little poncho tent, I awoke to a morning you only dream of. Look at the quality of the light behind me! A camera can only capture a faint taste of

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Fifty Faggots:

Leave a Comment / Australia, Farming, Home & Gardening, Victoria / admin

I love this poem (much as I hate the war that stole the poet from us – and that he foresaw his own death in it!) I so agree with the sentiment. It is the small acts of conservation count most. We have an archway I constructed 20+ years ago harbours many fine birds who

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New Fancy Feast Stove

Leave a Comment / Backpacking, Cooking, DIY, Hiking, How To Guide, Hunting, Uncategorized / admin

‘Zelph’ is clearly a genius (like Jim Woods who made the original of the Super Cat Stove – if you have not made one yet, do so today!). He has taken the ‘Super Cat’ to a whole new level – and I’m definitely impressed. I hit upon his website yesterday, saw that he doesn’t ship

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Three Stags

4 Comments / Farming, Home & Gardening, Hiking, Hunting, Uncategorized / admin

I just love living at Jeeralang. Every day there is something new or wonderful to see, sometimes several. On our evening walks we often see some deer. Usually I only have my phone, so I have lots of lousy shots of them. This evening I had my new camera. I had thought until recently that

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Ultralight Hiking on a Budget

Leave a Comment / Backpacking, Equipment, Hiking, Hunting, Packs, Shelter, Uncategorized, Waterproof / Rain Gear / admin

The ‘Big Five’ for less than $100 and under 3 kg! I recently posted about this 362 grams cheap 40 litre pack which you can buy from Amazon for US$20. I bought one just to see and found it very good indeed – as good or better than many more expensive packs I own/have owned,

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Tyvek

8 Comments / Backpacking, DIY, Hiking, Hunting, Shelter, Uncategorized / admin

Over the years I have made many projects out of this wonderful material, particularly tents but other things besides (see below). I use the 3 metre wide ‘Homewrap’ version which I source by the 30 metre roll from Bensons (Home) Hardware in Morwell  nearby at about A$200 per roll. Each roll is enough to make

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Honey

Leave a Comment / Farming, Home & Gardening, Uncategorized / admin

As you have probably noticed we have a new puppy (for Spot) whom we have called ‘Honey’. We had a very unhappy ‘Spot’ following Tiny’s death in early February. We decided to do something about it quickly (this was also the vet’s recommendation) so a quick trip to Digger’s Rest and we became the new

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Hidden Worlds: Nocturnal Ants

2 Comments / Farming, Home & Gardening, Uncategorized / admin

We have lived in this house for 27 years yet still there are things which surprise. Tonight I was taking the puppy (Honey) out the front door for her ‘Goodnight’ toilet stop. (She is making progress) when I noticed for the first time that there is a nest of these 1 cm+ golden beauties right

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