I'm in Oxford for three years,
so there may not be many updates to this page for a while.
Australian Trips
Bushwalks
There's a full log
of my
bushwalks, with some longer writeups.
Highlights:
Equipment
Some brief notes on
bushwalking equipment,with
more specific pages on
the
Dunlop Volley (the bushwalker's shoe of choice) and
bushwalking food.
Books
Some notes on trips I'd like to do.
Legacy links to overseas travelogues:
- Turkey and Switzerland (2010)
- Vietnam + Cambodia (2009)
- Hong Kong and Brittany (2007)
- Kaikoura to Kahurangi (2006)
- New Zealand's Nelson + Marlborough (2006)
- Mongolia and Beijing (2005)
- North Island New Zealand (2005)
- Coromandel, Tongariro, Waikato
- South Iceland and England/Scotland (2003)
- Otago, Southland, Fiordland (2003)
- New Zealand travelogue
- New Zealand South Island (20002)
- North Pakistan & Western China (1999)
- Chitral, Gilgit + Kashgar
- India (Maharashtra & Rajasthan) (1998)
- England, Catalonia, and France (1997)
- Java + Bali + California + Arizona (1994)
News & Links (from my blog)
the history of Sydney Uni's Eastern Avenue
Honi Soit the Australian lillipilly is the world's largest tree genus, with 1200 species across the world
Conversation where did Eastern Australia's volcanoes come from?
Conversation ten year old coal-fired power station written off as worthless
ABC unsustainable new housing in Sydney
Bloomberg "single-glazed, black-roofed properties crammed together with little natural greenery. Access to shops or services nearly always requires getting into the car"
Other Resources
Some external
personal sites and old links.
For bushwalking discussion, try
aus.bushwalking.
It's not quite how I'd have put it, but the Macquarie dictionary defines
bushwalking as "the sport of making one's way on foot through the bush,
often on tracks designed for this but sometimes for longer periods through
virgin terrain." The Australian "bushwalking" is not far in meaning
from "hiking", "trekking", "tramping", or "rambling", for those of you
speaking
other
Englishes.
This was, to the best of my knowledge, the first bushwalking page on
the Web, but is now just a personal site, not the comprehensive resource I
originally envisaged.