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...
Distance: a few km?Music: The Be Good Tanyas – Waiting Around to Die Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed. William Earnest Henley – Invictus The helicopter hovers a foot off the ground, disgorges two blokes with trauma bags, then files off again to circle. They do some cursory checks, note that I’m cogent and walking, grab my bag, and brief me on getting into...
Distance: 9kmElevation: +800mTime: 10:00Total Distance: 273km Abels: Slatters Peak, King William II (Total: 8)Music: Spectacular Spectacular – Let’s Fly Away Never tell me the odds. Han Solo I wake with a mixture of emotions. Trepidation, intimidation, determination… awe. I have one task today. Walk. The weather is perfect. I still have three beautiful days ahead, and the 40mm of rain has...
Distance: 25kmElevation: +1000mTime: 9:50Total Distance: 264 km Abels: King William I (Total: 6)Music: Puscifer – The Green Valley No direction but to follow what you know No direction but to trust the final destination Puscifer – The Green Valley It’s an odd thing to do, when you think about it. Here’s how you do it. You plot out a course from start to finish, fill a bag with...
Somewhere today around Mount King William I I’m crossing paths with one of Tasmania’s most underrated and hungriest bushwalkers. But to talk about him, we need some context. A deceptively short 60km east-south-east of here lies the tiny, redundant prison of Sarah Island, nestled in Macquarie Harbour. Today it’s an out-of-the-way tourist destination. I haven’t been, but the pictures look lovely...
Distance: 7kmElevation: +3mTotal Distance: 239km Don’t believe everything you read on the internet. Abraham Lincoln I don’t sleep too well on the mattress in the Bumlin Drunkhouse, though I’m glad that I have the three-bunk room to myself. I don’t understand how you people sleep on mattresses. Is it a masochism thing? I enjoy the novelty of eating my muesli from a bowl and my coffee from a mug in...
Distance: 17kmElevation: +200mTime: 5:30Total Distance: 232km Music: Heather Nova – Walk This World I want you to come, walk this world with me. Heather Nova I drag my feet getting ready. I don’t have to hurry. My check-in isn’t until 3:00 and it’s only about 16km. I savour my coffee. More goodbyes. I’m alone walking through wet scrub again on a muddy trail. I try to moderate my walking...
