Also from overseas we had Brian & Debra Dodgson from Mansfield Victoria. Brian was working at Radio Australia's Darwin transmitting station when Cyclone Tracey hit on Christmas Eve in 1974. He was a member of DX Australia and the Southern Cross DX Club. Other participants came from Southland,...
Wilderness can be the silty reaches of a mangrove swamp or the micro-community of the forest floor. A walking track like the Route-burn, though it bears the marks of human modification, is still wilderness par excellence, and overseas visitors beat a path to it. Inevitably, as pressure of...