Australia - Bushwalks and Travelogues
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I'm in Oxford for three years, so there may not be many updates to this page for a while. Australian Trips
BushwalksThere's a full log of my bushwalks, with some longer writeups. Highlights:
EquipmentSome brief notes on bushwalking equipment,with more specific pages on the Dunlop Volley (the bushwalker's shoe of choice) and bushwalking food.Books
Some bushwalking books.
Check out my review of Rick Shine's Australian Snakes or my many other book reviews, especially the bushwalking, travel, exploration + Australia categories. Some notes on trips I'd like to do. Legacy links to overseas travelogues:
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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
new cycleways in Sydney help enable a cycling boom City of Sydney
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 ResourcesSome 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. |