tristan riley

Sugar cane replaces rainforest; bad taste sugar mansions nestle in rusting cane paddocks. Trying to find bush, I walked the Dalrymple Gap track, an old bullock track following an older Aboriginal trail. Then I went to the coast to visit Edmund Kennedy National Park. The start of an 1848 expedition to explore Cape York, Kennedy [...]

I zig-zagged west, towards a huge uninhabited range between the towns of Roma and Emerald. The Great Dividing Range here lies 1000km inland and a rugged 300 000 hectare section forms Carnarvon NP, established in 1932. White sandstone cliffs tower above. Lush Livistonia palms, sandpaper figs, she-oak and tall eucalypt form a shady canopy below. [...]