Distance: 21kmTime: 7:45Total Distance: 540km Music: The Be Good Tanyas – Out of the Wilderness If you can force your every nerve and sinewTo serve their turn long after they are doneAnd still go on when there is nothing in youExcept the will which says to them, ‘go on’. Rudyard Kipling – If I wake naturally before the dawn, worrying about the boat crossing. Wind and tide can make it...
Distance: 23kmElevation: +700mTime: 8:15Total Distance: 519km Scoparia, scoparia;Nothing could be scarier!I wish my legs were hairierWhen walking through scoparia. Linda Groom A wallaby scampers around camp as I wake up. The birds are chirping. It’s going to be a warm day, and I suspect another tough one. Straight out of camp, it’s mud and dense trackside scrub wet with the morning dew. But then...
Distance: 22kmElevation: +500mTime: 8:00Total Distance: 496km Music: Heilung – Nesso Hiking is not for everyone. Notice the wilderness is mostly empty. Sonja Yoerg A cold morning. My watch claims a low of 4°, 7° at time of writing, but it feels colder. There was scampering last night, and tiny hopping. Perhaps bettongs? Maybe a quoll? The Port Davey track is shrouded in mystery. Some say...
Distance: 28kmElevation: +400mTime: 8:30Total Distance: 474km Music: Heather Nova – Rewild Me [again] Rewild my heart, let me findMy animal parts, the divine. Heather Nova – Rewild Me I wake in the night to the sound of scampering. I lean out of the hammock, ready to smack a possum on the nose, but instead I see a gorgeous little Eastern quoll! It’s gone by the time I get my phone out...
Distance: 13kmElevation: +700m -1300mTime: 7:45Total Distance: 446km Abels: Mt Anne (Total: 9)Music: Darkher – Hung When the wind whips through the skyBlow the land across my eyeThe map is not the territoryThe map is not the territory Ego Likeness I awake in a sea of cloud. No point walking in this, so I make my breakfast and coffee and settle in to wait for it to lift. I sit and read until...
Distance: 14kmElevation: +800mTime: 4:20Total Distance: 433km Before you criticise someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes. I wake to a cold morning. Feels colder than the 5° my watch tells me it is. The quarry is filled with fog and birdsong. I only have fourteen fairly easy kilometres to walk today. I take my sweet time getting...
Distance: 28kmElevation: +900mTime: 9:40Total Distance: 419kmMusic: Faith and the Muse – Shattered in Aspect It’s time to let goTime to spend some time aloneReconsider what could be doneUnbind the imagination Faith and the Muse – Shattered in Aspect In yesterday’s scrub I lost one of my usb cables; the one connecting the solar panel on top of my pack to the power bank in the top...
Distance: 14kmElevation: +300mTime: 6:00Total Distance: 391km Music: The Devil Makes Three – Forty Days Never follow someone else’s path. Unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost, and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that. Ellen DeGeneres Something large kept banging about in the bush around camp last night. Either Bigfoot, or a ten foot tall wallaby. Though I’m not...
Distance: 31kmElevation: +350mTime: 9:30Total Distance: 377kmMusic: Goanna – Let the Franklin Flow Is there any reason why Tasmania should not be more beautiful on the day we leave it, than on the day we came?… If we can revise our attitudes towards the land under our feet; if we can accept a role of steward and depart from the role of the conqueror, if we can accept that man and nature are...
Distance: 23kmElevation: +500mTime: 6:30Total Distance: 346km Music: The Kill Devil Hills – The Drought I’ll be taking it easy, taking it slowI’m going down the mountain where the river did flow. The Kill Devil Hills – The Drought 5° overnight. It’s supposed to hit 27°. I don’t really feel the need to rush getting out of bed. There’s a nicely appointed camp kitchen, but I prefer...
Distance: 31kmElevation: +300mTime: 7:15Total Distance: 323km Music: Fever Ray – Keep The Streets Empty For Me I’m laying down, eating snow My fur is hot, my tongue is cold On a bed of spider web I think of how to change myself Fever Ray The spot I chose to camp was more sheltered than I’d thought, though the wind ripped and roared through the treetops. I slept warm and...
Distance: 19kmElevation: +300mTime: 5:40Total Distance: 292km Music: Heilung – Krigsgaldr # Alexander Pearce did nothing wrong. Toby Back on the same bus I caught two weeks ago. Toby jokes that I’ll pop back up in Derwent Bridge like respawning at my last save point in a video game. ♥️♥️🤍 I realise I’ve been really bad at taking photos while in Hobart...
