Small steps …
Last Saturday, which was a gorgeous Tasmanian winters day, we walked the Echo Sugarloaf Track near Randalls Bay close to the mouth of the Huon River. This was my first attempt at bush walking since the shenanigans of late April. I recalled how in `All Things Wise and Wonderful’ James Herriot describes a fellow who, after making the trip from the countryside into London, complained about how difficult it was to walk in the city: “There were that many people about,” he explained, “I ’ad to take big steps and little ’uns, then big steps and little ’uns again.” Well, there were no people to disturb the rhythm of the walk but metaphorically it felt like the first very little steps back to normality. The Echo Sugarloaf Walk is part of a collection of Tasmanian walks known as the Poimenas. These walks are companions to the Abels which are mountains over 1100 metres in elevation, Tasmania’s equivalent to the Scottish Munros. In contrast, the Poimenas have modest elevation b...
