The Day Ten Project Recently I switched to a nine day fortnight at work, leaving the tenth day for exploring and botanising. Today I decided to wander out past Wombat Moor along the Lake Belcher Track up at Mount Field…
There is something rather special about snow covered landscapes. Everyone loves them, well, everyone seems to love them in some capacity. Even if they aren’t fans of being cold, or the potential risk of being cold, they still have a…
Tasmania’s orchids | Peter Fehre May’s Tasmanian Field Naturalist Club meeting was one of my favourites to date. Yeah, I am biased, because I love Tasmania’s native orchid population, but then who doesn’t right. We were lucky enough to have…
Mount Misery? The naming of mountains is an odd thing. Why this amazing patch of wet forest has been named in a such a way that infers it will be the worst day out imaginable I do not know. Perhaps…
Aprils outing with the Field Naturalists of Tasmania took us back to New Town Falls. The family and I were up there not that long ago, so I won’t go into detail about the logistics of the walk and where…
Saturday (a week x 2 ago) I made a decision that every weekend we would all go for a walk somewhere. Make it a family thing each week, rain, hail or shine. Usually I go off wandering on my own…
Quick little trip out to Sphinx Rock today up on Mount Wellington. I really have no idea how may minutes it is along the Lenah Valley track from the Springs. Mainly because I never bothered to look. And everytime I…
Milles Track | Mt Wellington | Spring snow I have literally only left the house once in the past 8 days, and that was for a two hour uni prac where I got to measure metabolic rates of meal worms……
I walked up a mountain on Saturday and I managed to talk the entire way. This indicates to me that my fitness has greatly improved over the last few months. Last time I walked up a mountain I couldn’t hold…
I haven’t spent a lot of time down at the Tasman Peninsula. A few trips here and there to try and get an aurora at the Tessellated Pavement, a trip to Port Arthur with my daughters grade 5 class, and…