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Somewhere Along the South Cape Bay Track
The South Cape Bay track is a day walk in Tasmania’s Southwest National Park, within the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area. It’s a two-hour drive south from Hobart to Cockle Creek, which is the end of the road. From here you can walk for a week or more along the South Coast Track to Melaleuca Inlet on the west coast, an even more remote place of astounding natural values and beauty. Walking to South Cape Bay is the first day of that epic bushwalk.
I recently had the privilege of enjoying this wonderland and want to share some reflections with you.
A Beautiful Brew
When I wrote this article I purged my kitchen of ancient tea bags of all descriptions. Why keep them, why buy them, why use them? Herbs are easy to grow and fresh is always best. Failing growing them, buy them dried but not bagged, and enjoy teapot culture. Tea bags may contain harmful toxins, create waste and we tend to store them for aeons. Old leaves in paper packets with glue and whatnot holding them together! The expensive so-called silken pyramids are the worst and you may be drinking micro-plastics with your ‘healthy’ brew. They are not made of silk, they are nylon. Anyway, I’ll stop raving and let you read the article.
Corridors of Life
I can't get enough of Emma and her fantastic Melbourne Pollinator Corridor. Her mission to create 8km of street gardens for pollinators is a fabulously ambitious and important example of how to be a local activist for nature.
What’s the Buzz?
Stop killing insects! They are the most important pollinators, essential for life as we know it and for food production. Writing this article was a great opportunity to refresh my love of botany and the relationships between plants and critters.
It's all about plant sex, so read on.
The Pollinator Project that’s Transforming Melbourne’s Streets
Recently I met Emma Cutting, founder of the Heart Gardening Project and the Melbourne Pollinator Corridor. She’s a force of nature on a mission to feed the tiny winged things that keep nature reproducing in Australia’s famously urban city.
Barry Davidson’s Claremont Garden
Published in Tasmanian Life in July 2008.
Claremont is an unremarkable outer suburb of Hobart. Barry Davidson’s garden is a delightful surprise: a completely remarkable labour of love and an important collection of magnolias, rhododendrons, maples and a certain unsusual orchid.