Newsletters

The Gippsland High Country Tours Newsletters included details about the forthcoming program of ecotours and walks, as well as interesting local or nature news items and entertaining stories from recent participants. The archive of older newsletters contain many articles of interest and these will be uploaded shortly along with an index to articles.

The final Newsletter - Newsletter 45 (Winter 2023) is now available to download (.pdf)

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2023 Winter Newsletter 45 (final)

Farewell by Jenny Lawrence
Echidna Walkabout
Inala Nature Tours
Goldsmiths in the Forest B & B (including comments from guests)
Alpine Discovery Tour by Nancy O’Toole
Acknowledgements and Thank you
Errinundra (poem) by Dorothy Gordon
A bit of history and a few highlights by Jenny Lawrence

2022 July Winter Email Update

2021 May Autumn Email Update

2020 August Winter Email Update

2020 March Autumn Email Update

2019 Autumn 2019 Newsletter 44

The imparting of knowledge by Jenny G
Ecotourism Hall of Fame – Gippsland High Country Tours, over 20 years of ecotourism certification
Alpine Discovery Tour – Joan
Special Memories from Walking Croajingolong in Spring by Terry & Christina
More Croajingolong Memories – Lesley & Charles
Errinundra Nature Tour
The colours of Pt Hicks by Ruth Akie
High Country memories by Peter Macdonald
Bird Week in Snowy River Country by Ruth Akie

2017 Spring/Summer 2017 Newsletter 43

Victoria’s most endangered marsupial – Rockies on the road to recovery
Deddick (poem) by Anne Pickles
Point Hicks Lighthouse Tour – highlights by Gil, Cynthia & Cathy
Nature Sounds and Birdsong (with Andrew Skeoch) by Ruth Akie
Vale John Armit

2016 Spring 2016 Newsletter 42

Alpine Walking in Autumn – Mt Feathertop by Tony, Andrew & Vicki
High Country Huts beyond Licola by June Torcasio
Walking from Waterholes – The last hurrah by Sannie Pritchard
Waterholes Guesthouse closed
Swans (poem) by Peter Lawrence
Nature Notes – Caterpillar excavators
Nature Notes – Processionary Caterpillars (reprinted from Newsletter 14)
Snowy River Valley bird happenings by Kevin & Joanna
Ecotourism and making a contribution

2015 Spring 2015 Newsletter 41

Concert on Mt Everard by Anne Pickles
The Mallee, the Murray and More by Lana Tinsley
Wonderful Waterholes by Dorothy Francis
Book Reviews, Tazzie the Turbo Chook and The Boobooks Nook by Sonia Strong
Trip to Gabo by Margaret Hallett

2014 Spring 2014 Newsletter 40

Peregrine Falcon apartment tower
Gabo Island by Nancy O’Toole
A tribute to Uncle Albert Mullett
The Regent (Smoker) Parrot
The Smoker Parrot (a poem) by John Shaw Neilson
Desert Peat Pilbara by Yvonne Wong
(More opinion peices on the value of our National Parks by Peter Lawrence https://www.abc.net.au/news/peter-lawrence/5190514)

2013 Winter 2013 Newsletter 39

Owls and missing mammals by Rohan Bilney
Reflections and highlights from Croajingolong National Park by Dorothy Francis
If you don’t fight for what you love, don’t cry for what you lose.
At last, a management plan for feral horses
Dateline: Innamincka, SA May 2012 by Deborah Campbell
Seashore Life: some comments
Birds of the Snowy River (a poem) by Josephine Flanagan

2012 Spring 2012 Newsletter 38

Look out for those spots… by Maria Cardoso (Quolls)
Our Lives (poem) by Peter Lawrence
Shells & Seashore Life by Thelma Bridle
Spotted by Jenny

2012 Autumn 2012 Newsletter 37

Feathers, Frogs & Furry Things
Comments from various tours
Nature Notes – Snake behaviour
Remote cameras for wildlife surveys
Pt Hicks Lighthouse (poem) by Josephine Flanagan
Simple steps to reduce the impact of your paper trail.
Black Rainbow Environmentally Responsible Printing

2011 Spring 2011 Newsletter 36

Happy 20^th Birthday to Gippsland High Country Tours
Mountain Sunrise (poem) by Peter Lawrence
Walk Mt Howitt & Tali Karng – Highlights by Maureen, Doug & Steve
Point Hicks Lighthouse (poem) by Josephine Flanagan
International Year of the Forest
Cattle Grazing in Victoria’s Alpine National Park (update)
The Nankeen Kestrel by Peter Lawrence

2011 Autumn 2011 Newsletter 35

Southern Ark – giving East Gippsland’s Fauna a Chance by Simon Ruff & Andy Murray
Birds of the Snowy River by Pat Macdonald
Cattle Grazing in Victoria’s Alpine National Park
Nature Notes – A line of ants
Nature Notes – Lunch with the Birds
Beyond the High Country – Flinders Ranges by Dot Prout

2010 Spring 2010 Newsletter 34

Alpine Summer

2010 Autumn 2010 Newsletter 33

Wollangarra, young people in high places
Snowy River & Errinundra (a poem) by Jo Flanagan
Does Alpine Grazing reduce Blazing?
Walking from Waterholes, some highlights by Helen, Francine & Pat
Tasmania – A Natural History Tour, highlights by John, Lana & Peter
Green Travel Leader – Gippsland High Country Tours, Eco-certified for over 10 years

2009 Spring 2009 Newsletter 32

Leopard Seal
Snowy River and Errinundra Ecotour (poem) by Marian Maddern
Special Places by Margaret Tonkin’
Wildlife Research News

2009 Autumn 2009 Newsletter 31

Birds of the Snowy River by L Tinsley
To a Flame Robin Nesting (a poem) by Yvonne Wong
Alpine Discovery Tour highlights by Sue, Meg & Yvonne
Building Fences (Blaizaid) for bushfire recovery
New Year Wonders of Wildlife – post fire wildlife survey, Haunted Stream
Weedy Beach Drag ‘em with apologies to the Weedy Sea Dragon, Victoria’s marine emblem!

2008 Spring Newsletter 30

Paddle steamer Curlip II by Liz Mitchell
In Quest of a Smoky Mouse by “An Idler” (Photos by I Hose & J Heyward)
Delightful Suggan Buggan by “Roving Reporter”

2008 Autumn Newsletter 29

Highs and Lows – a window into life in the small mining town of Deptford taken from the book ”Bedrock” by Keith McD Fairweather
Errinundra by Tineke VanderBaan (Poem)
Mt Feathertop Adventure – some highlights
Nature notes from Croajingolong by Meredith Debens
The Shadow – newsletter of the Brush-tailed Rock Wallaby Recovery Team
The Green Paper Chase – recycled paper

2007 Spring Newsletter 28

Croajingolong Calling by Meredith Debens
Mud Builders, White-winged Choughs
Snowy River & Errinundra Tour by Alison Goding
Croajingolong Coastal Ecotour by John & Evelyn Scannell, Alvina Smith & Meredith Debens
Book Review – My Cats Garden

2007 Autumn Newsletter 27

Report on the 2006-07 bushfires
Waterholes Guesthouse bushfire experience
Snowy River & Errinundra Explorer Tour by Sannie Pritchard
A report of a trip along the Strzelecki Track, SA May 2006 by Alan Monger
Strzelecki Safari by Maurice Sexton

2006 Spring Newsletter 26

Tingaringy & Errinundra for Walkers by J Kenny
Gippsland High Country Tours 15^th birthday celebrations and awards
Bruny Island, Tasmania by Airdrie Mann
Alpine Discovery highlights
Wonders of Wildlife Adventure – New Year 2005/2006 by Belinda Heyward

2006 Autumn Newsletter 25

Cobberas Wilderness & Cowombat Flat Adventure by Belinda Heyward
Croajingolong Coastal Ecotour highlights
The story of Percy the Possum by Ruth Flett
Nature Notes
McKillops Bridge 70^th Birthday
Proclamation of Black-Allan Line March 2006

2005 Spring Newsletter 24

Mt Feathertop Adventure by Coralie Coulson
Alpine Discovery Tour & Croajingolong highlights
Tasmania – A Natural History Tour

2005 Autumn Newsletter 23

Rats? Soft cute Native Rats (Broad-toothed Rat) by Ann Pritchard
Walking from Waterholes stories
Bushwalking highlights (Tali Karng & Forlorn Hope Plain) Yo Lickerman
Book Review – Flames across the Mountains
Croajingolong National Park highlights

2004 Spring Newsletter 22

Tali Karng Expedition poem by Diana Cross
Croajingolong National Park highlights
Penguin Problems by J Lawrence
2004 East Gippsland Tourism Awards – Gippsland High Country Tours - winner Ecotourism Award

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