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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Walls of Jerusalem National Park, Tasmania

Tucked away amongst an ancient pencil pine forest beside Lake Ball in Tasmania's wild Central Plateau, is a small wooden slab-and-shingle hut which houses a reflective story. 

Known simply as Lake Ball Hut, it was built in 1968 as a secret retreat by Ray 'Boy' Miles. This respected local bushman increasingly sought solace and healing in the high country of his childhood after returning from World War 2 and three harrowing years as a prisoner of war on the Burma railway.  A plaque in the hut explains the importance of the place and its wild surrounds: "Here he left behind the cares of the lowlands and found a relationship with the land that he was unable to replicate in the human world."