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Beachy Head · Coastal exploration /
At the Edge of a Very Long Story
Chalk, coastal grassland and the Beachy Head lighthouse.
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Go out.
Look closer.
Think again.
The world is under no obligation to be ordinary. It merely benefits from our being in a hurry.
Into the Expedition Journal →Exspecta : Observa : Vide.
A little less certainty.
A great deal more outside.
Exploration of the Great Outdoors is fundamental to the Myconaut Way. A bicycle, a stretch of coast, a path with something going on beside it: these are perfectly adequate beginnings. The interesting part is allowing the day to become more than the efficient execution of a plan.
Myconaut follows curiosity across the ground and into ideas. Original photographs keep the writing in touch with particular places; science and history open further doors. Philosophy occasionally leans over the gate to offer an opinion. It is welcome, provided it does not obstruct the path.
This is a growing journal of real expeditions and considered observations, with room for music, fungi, experiments and the odd thought that refuses to behave. The first literary collection brings together Beachy Head, Dartmoor and Pevensey Castle. There is no need to pretend the shelves are full before the next good question arrives.
From the field
Three expeditions
Dartmoor and Tavistock · Devon /
A Moment to Spare: The Distance Between Looking and Seeing
A river, Gem Bridge, Grenofen Tunnel and the woodland floor.
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Pevensey Castle · East Sussex cycling /
Where the Sea Used to Be
The Roman enclosure, country lanes and The Lamb at Hooe.
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Between the bigger things
A destination is useful.
So is a distraction.
The Pevensey expedition has a castle, but also a strip of water, country passages and a bicycle with a working life. The spaces between named places have not been wasting their time.
Where the Sea Used to Be →One website. Many lines of enquiry.
Follow a different thread
Sometimes the best discoveries happen when you have stopped looking for anything in particular.
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