Giovanni Moro

Another one-of-kind project in Tasmania has us rethinking our travel priorities once we are all free and clear of COVID. 

This Standing Camp (krakani lumi or place of rest) in Tasmania’s North East National Park is for the Aboriginal Land Council of Tasmania. The site fringes the northern edge of the Bay of Fires, and serves as a two night stop over for a 4 day guided walk through the cultural landscape, from wukalina – Mt William, to larapuna - Eddystone Point.  There are accommodations and communal facilities for 12 people.  It is the first walk of its kind in Tasmania that is entirely owned and operated by the Aboriginal Land Council. The approach to the site is made from an exposed and pristine beach dune, through open coastal heath that is rich in diverse flora and animal-life. Impossible to see until arriving, krakani lumi is enveloped deep within a grove of banksia marginata.  Clad in charred Tasmanian timber, the individual structures appear as a series of discrete dark pavilions, merging as shadows into the surrounding dense banksia, camouflaging the camp when it is not in use.  The exterior of the individual structures of the standing camp are robust, tautly detailed and resilient to the corrosive sea air and to tampering.