The high country in December

a bogong moth | a walk | a book, or two

My grandfather once lived at a place called Tawonga South, near the base of Mount Beauty in the high country. We'd drive up from Melbourne on a Friday to eat a parma and chips at the Bogong Hotel, named after the infamous Bogong Moth. The moth is well known in those parts for its mass migration each spring, intimately timed with the Mountain Pygmy-possu…