What a lovely post. Mount Mawson looks beautiful. I'm glad you got to enjoy the snowflakes this season. And thank you for the shout out 🙏 and among such a list of wonderful Australian-based writers. It's very much appreciated. It's taken me months to find writers from Australia on Substack, but now that I'm on the right course, they're flowing in. I love being able to connect with people from all over the world, but there's something comforting in the words of those from home.
I so recognised your accomodation in that tower you stayed in because I wax there or somewhere very similar when I went to Melbourne for Climate Summit just before the pandemic hit Australia.I remember it as a surreal time, not least because of the oddness of being above the city in sealed rooms, interspersed with intense discussions at Melbourne Town Hall about state of planet and how to proceed, many plans hatched and then scuppered soon after. I too love the poignancy of security guards focused on nests and fledglings. If only caring for wildlife was the work of all security guards ! And thank you for the shout out, a lovely surprise at the end of a great newsletter.
Mount Mawson sounds amazing - like stories my partners Aunt told about Thredbo in the early days. With you on the Peregrine awe - my Mum is busy watching them from Sydney. My eldest is named Peregrine so I always love a Peregrine story! xo
This is beautiful; thank you. I also could not live in the city; even small shopping malls leave me feeling anxious and drained. And it's lovely to read a Substack from someone in the Southern Hemisphere. I'm a South African.
Thank you for reading Carri and for your lovely comment. Hello from Tasmania. It's lovely to connect with other readers and writers here in the south of the world.
Gorgeous writing. I feel the same when I visit cities - that I am an animal all out of place. I love that the security guards were invested in the lives of the falcons - and what joy, to watch their little lives unfold (hopefully these ones will have a happier ending than the previous fledgling). Thank you for these words.
Thanks Rebecca for your kind words. The security guards were like the 'keepers' of the birds. I imagine the nest on the roof was like their common book of prayer. I can't wait to tune in and see the nestlings when they have hatched. Fingers crossed they do this year.
Also… forgot to say, enthralling piece! You capture perfectly how some of us feel in great glass cities, vulnerable and fleshy. I looked at accommodation in those glass towers when we were thinking of making a trip there and wondered if I could do it. An how good to think of the falcon giving a whole different focus to the security guards days.
I’ve never heard of the Mt Mawson ski field before, and I love that it looks so Tasmanian - rocky and cloudy and dark. So many places in Tassie take some trouble to get to and are more difficult to experience. I think it’s important that we still have places like that in the world, and realise that the earth doesn’t just roll out all its gifts to us easily and endlessly. Thank you for the mention also ☺️
What a lovely post. Mount Mawson looks beautiful. I'm glad you got to enjoy the snowflakes this season. And thank you for the shout out 🙏 and among such a list of wonderful Australian-based writers. It's very much appreciated. It's taken me months to find writers from Australia on Substack, but now that I'm on the right course, they're flowing in. I love being able to connect with people from all over the world, but there's something comforting in the words of those from home.
Thanks Ali, I love the way Australian authors are connecting here on Substack. Also so glad I have found your wonderful writing and reflections too.
I so recognised your accomodation in that tower you stayed in because I wax there or somewhere very similar when I went to Melbourne for Climate Summit just before the pandemic hit Australia.I remember it as a surreal time, not least because of the oddness of being above the city in sealed rooms, interspersed with intense discussions at Melbourne Town Hall about state of planet and how to proceed, many plans hatched and then scuppered soon after. I too love the poignancy of security guards focused on nests and fledglings. If only caring for wildlife was the work of all security guards ! And thank you for the shout out, a lovely surprise at the end of a great newsletter.
Thanks for your lovely comment Sally. I imagine all your thoughts would have been whirling up there in that glass tower on the sky.
Mount Mawson sounds amazing - like stories my partners Aunt told about Thredbo in the early days. With you on the Peregrine awe - my Mum is busy watching them from Sydney. My eldest is named Peregrine so I always love a Peregrine story! xo
Oh I love your daughter’s name!
This is beautiful; thank you. I also could not live in the city; even small shopping malls leave me feeling anxious and drained. And it's lovely to read a Substack from someone in the Southern Hemisphere. I'm a South African.
Thank you for reading Carri and for your lovely comment. Hello from Tasmania. It's lovely to connect with other readers and writers here in the south of the world.
Gorgeous writing. I feel the same when I visit cities - that I am an animal all out of place. I love that the security guards were invested in the lives of the falcons - and what joy, to watch their little lives unfold (hopefully these ones will have a happier ending than the previous fledgling). Thank you for these words.
Thanks Rebecca for your kind words. The security guards were like the 'keepers' of the birds. I imagine the nest on the roof was like their common book of prayer. I can't wait to tune in and see the nestlings when they have hatched. Fingers crossed they do this year.
Also… forgot to say, enthralling piece! You capture perfectly how some of us feel in great glass cities, vulnerable and fleshy. I looked at accommodation in those glass towers when we were thinking of making a trip there and wondered if I could do it. An how good to think of the falcon giving a whole different focus to the security guards days.
I’ve never heard of the Mt Mawson ski field before, and I love that it looks so Tasmanian - rocky and cloudy and dark. So many places in Tassie take some trouble to get to and are more difficult to experience. I think it’s important that we still have places like that in the world, and realise that the earth doesn’t just roll out all its gifts to us easily and endlessly. Thank you for the mention also ☺️