Marvelous Mitchell Day 3
Marvelous Mitchell Day 3 The Ultralight HikerWhat a wonderful ruin – like something from Ozymandias. Construction of this weir at the junction of the Mitchell and Stoney creek commenced in 1881 but the...
View ArticleDeer Hunter’s Tent Goes Bush
Deer Hunter’s Tent Goes Bush The Ultralight HikerI will not confess I broke the lockdown rule against ‘camping’ and took my Deer Hunter’s Tent up the bush for a trial run. It is always possible at my...
View ArticleSmall Game
Small Game The Ultralight HikerWas once the bushman’s standy-by. It is usually abundant, enormously varied, relatively easily to take, involves little waste or preparation and is often tasty and...
View ArticleOne Cicada Doesn’t make a Summer
One Cicada Doesn’t make a Summer The Ultralight HikerI was just doing some work clearing our new walking path in the bush up the creek behind our house yesterday (and again today) when this big guy...
View ArticleUnknown Bird Update
Unknown Bird Update The Ultralight HikerNature Finds a Way. The Horsfield Bronze Cuckoo (which is what it turned out to be – first mentioned in this post) in our garden has at last attracted a mate...
View ArticleSlime Mould Beauty
Slime Mould Beauty The Ultralight HikerThe slime moulds are out – at least that’s what I think they are. Or maybe they are a kind of coal fungi – who knows? Millions of things have never been...
View ArticleSetting Free the Turtles
Setting Free the Turtles The Ultralight HikerThere has been a veritable ‘plague’ of Long-Necked Turtles on the roads around here lately. Perhaps it is ‘nesting’ season. Yesterday I ‘rescued’ a couple...
View ArticleA Hawk in the Hand
A Hawk in the Hand The Ultralight HikerYou’ve heard the saying, “A cat among the pigeons”? Della keeps a whole cage of these white homing pigeons just because she likes them. Unfortunately so do hawks....
View ArticleNot Quite Alone in the Wilderness
Not Quite Alone in the Wilderness The Ultralight HikerI faced a week of enforced bachelorhood anyway (as Della is craftily away) so I decided to take the pups for a week’s walk…Four hour’s driving...
View ArticleWildlife Proof Fencing
Wildlife Proof Fencing The Ultralight HikerIt is lambing time again here (Aug 2023) and it is so nice to go out and around the ewes and lambs on the hill to find they are all alive and well – none...
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