Ed Thexton’s friends got the Himalayas, he got a different adventure.

Mike Cleeland has given up the day job but he’s not hanging up the rock hammer any time soon. By Ed Thexton

Finally we have a pathway to address erosion of the Inverloch surf beach, writes Ed Thexton. Now it’s time for action – and quickly.

In years to come Inverloch students will remember the day they planted trees on the oval. Ed Thexton reports

The survival of the koala in Gippsland is a modern-day miracle but now, more than ever, they need our help, writes Ed Thexton

The eroded vegetated dunes of Inverloch hold more than most of us could imagine, writes Ed Thexton.

Ed Thexton asks why so many of us act as though it’s still the 1970s.

A mass gathering of ravens at The Oaks intrigues Ed Thexton.

Inverloch Surf Beach to feature in a monumental legal case against fossil fuel giant, reports Ed Thexton

The juxtaposition of Picasso’s high art and cat crap got Ed Thexton thinking about the Jekyll and Hyde quality of the domestic moggy.

Between the theatre and the tedium, a clash of world views is reduced to minor points, writes Ed Thexton

“Don’t sweat the small stuff” or “From small things big things grow”? Waist deep in his local creek, Ed Thexton ponders the contradiction as he does battle with a demon weed.

A new development planned for The Glade is like having an elephant in your lounge room, writes Ed Thexton

Ed Thexton proposes a uniquely Victorian solution for grumpy old men who used to be important.

Ed Thexton marvels that this remnant of a lost world has survived against the odds.

The Murdoch media empire finally recognises the seriousness of climate change. Ed Thexton finds the evidence on Page 25 of the Herald Sun.

Rivers and waterways are serious matters, writes Ed Thexton, but creeks are all about kids and fun. So let’s stop hiding them away in drains.

For Ed Thexton, the lockdown is not so much about what he’s missing but more about what he’s discovering with his son.

Half an hour after declaring a climate emergency, our councillors voted to proceed with a $2 million concrete path alongside a beach that’s receded 40 metres in six years. Ed Thexton reports

Ed Thexton fled from the risk of fire in the Yarra Valley into the waiting arms of a flood risk in Inverloch.