Walks Category
Revisiting George Bass Coastal Trail
Posted on September 11, 2025 Leave a Comment
Revisiting the George Bass coastal trail
High Country
Posted on November 18, 2024 Leave a Comment
The first Tuesday in November, a Melbourne holiday for an iconic horse race, is an opportunity for those of us not champing at the bit for race day to take Monday off and enjoy a four-day weekend. Hello high country, the Victorian Alps, a 400-kilometre drive from home. A rule about trekking in hill country […]
Cape Woolamai
Posted on August 12, 2024 Leave a Comment
Cape Woolamai, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia
Nature
Posted on April 22, 2024 Leave a Comment
Nature is a great leveller. There was a time when I sought its might and majesty to derive comfort from the relative insignificance of humanity. Nature had that delightful capacity to reduce the most boastful, opinionated and intimidating among us to fragility, vulnerability and helplessness. Nature is still a great leveller, but I don’t see […]
Mount Fuji
Posted on October 27, 2023 Leave a Comment
Even when the above photo was taken, I had not made up my mind to climb. Mount Fuji, on a clear late afternoon at the Fifth Station, did not look too daunting. Perhaps that swayed me. My partner said he would be climbing no matter what I ended up doing. That swayed me too. I […]
Gerry Roberts 
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