WILDEST AND MOST REMOTE LANDSCAPES OF THE SE
During November and December 2024 I am touring libraries of the SE region to talk on our WILDEST AND MOST REMOTE LANDSCAPES.
In a region where few main roads link us to the outside world, if we keep only to these routes we experience a tunnel vision of the countryside in which we live. But there’s more to it. Lots more. I’m intending to take you through the amazing beauty of some of the most remote, wildest landscapes of south coast Shires, their history and significance…
The coastal ranges are complicated. Sometimes they’re also called the Great Escarpment, the Great Eastern Ranges and they include the Great Divide. Somehow I prefer the descriptive name given them by our first great geologist, WB Clarke in the mid-1860s. He called them a cordillera because they’re like a great rope, twisted and turned, snaking roughly parallel to the coast with ribs that often reach towards the ocean.
My deeper explorations began about 50 years ago and I soon realised how inconsistent the countryside is. It’s not simply forest. It’s more like a mosaic. I plan to describe parts of the mosaic, their strange flora and fauna….