Peter Brigg's Paragraph and images for February 2011

'The weather turned foul and there was little prospect for fishing. We passed most of the day and evening in a deep valley below the towering escarpment, hunkered around the fire in conversation and drinking copious amounts of coffee. A sense of connection crept into my awareness and a realization that exploring our place in the wilderness is an extremely powerful and essential human instinct. Unlike the complexities of living in the city, to survive in these wild places daily routines take on a simplicity of basic needs; finding shelter from the elements, collecting water and wood, food preparation. It is in all of us, a fundamental relationship with the natural world'