When I was very young I became enchanted by an uncaptioned picture, in an encyclopaedia, of a bear catching salmon atop a distinctive waterfall. Years later, while watching the ABC news, I…

Some say it is one of the most important tools of all time, or one of the gadgets that changed the world. In use for millennia, the hook is perhaps the piece of equipment that gets the least…

Driving south from Corryong across the last bridge over the Nariel, it’s still a long way along a lot of fairly rough and twisting gravel road to the Gibbo, and despite all the awesome…