✈️ Travel Jul 12, 2026 · Alexis Buxton-Collins

Mushroom trip: a mycologist’s tour of the Tarkine

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Mushroom trip: a mycologist’s tour of the Tarkine
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On a three-day fungi workshop in Australia’s largest cool temperate rainforest, Alexis Buxton-Collins unearths an unexpected appreciation for the third kingdom of lifeRevered as one of Australia’s last true wilderness areas, Takayna/Tarkine is a place of legends. Freshwater crayfish that can reach almost a metre in length lurk in the shade of 2,000-year-old Huon pines, and every few years a rumour emerges that thylacines still prowl the dense Gondwanan rainforest of north-west Tasmania.For 65m y

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