Description
Mount Pilot
Mount Pilot is a granite batholith, surrounded on its lower flanks by massive granite tors and giant boulders. Some of these boulders have cracked and fallen to create caves and galleries, which offered permanent shelter to the first Australians. Two separate rock art paintings of Thylacines, each probably more than 2000 years old, speak of the area’s ancient spiritual significance. The surrounding remnant box ironbark and cypress pine forests shelter dozens of rare and threatened species, from barking owls and regent honeyeaters, to squirrel gliders and brush-tailedphascogales (tuan). On the summit, rock pools filled with rain water reflect the sky, while the view across the Murray River plains stretches as far as the eye can see. – Jacqui Durrant
Scott Hartvigsen
Scott Hartvigsen is a Beechworth based photographer with a strong interest in ecology and the environment. Scott has been a professional photographer for the past 20 years, but regards himself as an emerging art photographer, he was recently a finalist in the National Photography Prize. Scott has photographed in all kinds of conditions, from the heat and smoke of the Victorian bushfires to the frozen prairies of Newfoundland. With a background as a field ecologist and environmental conservationist, he welcomes the challenge of unique, nature-based and outdoor photographic assignments. Scott has documented logging blockades for the Wilderness Society and has been an in-house photographer for the Nature Conservation Trust of NSW.
