The Tyndall Range and its surrounds, located 30 minutes north of Queenstown, has been selected by the Tasmanian government for development as the state’s next “iconic walk”. Since the walk was first announced in 2019, it has been hugely controversial with environmental groups and local bushwalkers questioning the selection process and the walk’s impact on the Tyndalls’s sensitive alpine environments. Now, the final route has been tweaked and released to the public in a series of information sessions held around the state this month, with public viewings of the plan finishing up in Hobart last month.

To read our full story about the future of the Tyndall Range and our experiences hiking there, visit our new website at www.awildland.com.au.

The Long Tarns

A new blog is now live on our website so jump over to awildland.com.au and click on 'Stories' in the top menu to read all about a winter walk to the Long Tarns in Tasmania.

Long Tarns is right on the eastern border of the Walls of Jerusalem National Park, where it abuts The Great Western Tiers. 

This story was written primarily to accompany a new online exhibition of Craig’s photos, themed along our encounters with ice. The exhibition is also live now on our new website. The temporary show is called Pro Tempore - Ice.

What’s it mean? Pro Tempore is Latin for “for the time being”. That’s Ice, right. But also that is the exhibition - the images will only be available to view until the 21st August 2024. To accompany the exhibition is the new story.

Jump straight to the exhibition with this link - https://www.awildland.com.au/pro-tempore

Or straight to the story with this link - https://www.awildland.com.au/stories/the-long-tarns

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Visit the future of awildland

It all began here at our long-serving, hard working little blog page - a free, open access site detailing our many Australian adventures. But now...we are mixing things up a little and we have (finally) launched our own dedicated website with a changing gallery of never before seen images, new stories and even (possibly) prints and gifts - awildland.com.au. 

But we still love this blog page. It's not going anywhere. Our first blog was published here in 2012. Now the page boasts 137 posts detailing adventures from every state and territory in Australia. It has always been a place for us to hone our crafts and express our love of adventure, exploration and the Australian landscape. 

But, if you have been a regular visitor to this blog or followed our socials, you probably noticed that it all went really quiet in 2020.  

The lapse had many causes - changes in writing motivation and writing time were the main two. Even the simplest of blogs takes many hours of research, writing, and compilation but our commitment to spreading the word about adventure and nature also earnt us nothing. We have always kept this page ad-free and subscription free. And for the blog to continue, we felt we needed something to supplement or supercharge the motivation required to keep blogging. 

So we took a step back, enjoyed our adventures for a while, wrote and photographed for ourselves. Thinking all the time of how to mix things up.  

The end result is a new website! A fresh look and a slightly different approach. 

You can visit us at awildland.com.au

The website gives us greater flexibility and the chance to be more dynamic and varied as well as giving us a platform to promote our professional writing and photography. 

At awildland.com.au our plan is to make the photo gallery ever-changing; with the best on offer and not always tied to a story. We've started small, with themed galleries, but already it contains many never-before-published images. These images stand alone as things of beauty and exploration. The blog posts may be less frequent but still informative with a stronger focus on the story they have to tell, the histories in place and the things we can all do to ensure nature thrives into the future. 

awildland.blogspot.com.au will continue to exist as an archive, as long as blogspot exists. We may move some of the more relevant pieces to the new website and all new blogs will appear there rather than here. 

The idea is to evolve - us and this site; for the blog to evolve with nature and its voice.