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from Tales from the Bush

"There is ‘the bush’ as scenery. Those scrubby hills on the edge of town. The views we gawk at in coffee-table books or when taking a breather at a roadside lookout. It’s just there, like leafy wallpaper behind the fuss and stuff that fill our days. Then there is ‘the bush’ that grabs us. The places that shake dreams and memories when we put ourselves at the mercy of the elements and in the thick of nature’s action. Forests that seem to swallow us whole. Escarpments towering overhead like fortress walls. Red-sand dunes cresting on every horizon. Daunting peaks. Desperate ravines. Terrain that take us to the brink. Sights that keep us humble. Mysteries aplenty. Moments that set us free."

Home for me is somewhere 'out bush' - or at least as close to it as I can get. Apart from family stuff I've spent most of my life wandering and writing about nature.
My work covers a mixed bag of feature story journalism and travel writing, plus more offbeat essays about the experience of being outdoors. Most of this material bobs up in magazines like Australian Geographic, Wild, Outback and Outdoor Australia.
Over the years I've also been involved with several books. These include  pictorial driven works like The Kimberley: Horizons of Stone and Australia's Wild Islands ( both co-authored with Alasdair McGregor). Meanwhile, the quirkier essays have found their way into two story collections: The Wild Calling and Tales from the Bush.
Now based on Kangaroo Island, I'm increasingly attracted to photography as a way of keeping close to nature. These web pages are a bit like a bascamp for information about books and articles, plus some photo galleries. More recent news is posted on my personal  blog, plus a facebook page and yet another blog dedicated to my neck of the woods at Pink Bay.