Even when bushwalking on a remote track can you have some unique typographic discoveries.

I was ‘Ere Board |  This would have to be one of the more remote of our typo-sites. Amongst the bush that surrounds Refuge Cove in Victoria’s Wilsons Promontory is a visitors board. These wooden boards feature several hundred markings of boating enthusiasts who birth in the cove as a respite. The markings range from crude scratchings into flotsam and jetsam and whalebone through to clearly considered and well rendered paintings. Dating back to the early 1980s, they have collectively become a kind of community notice board, indicating both passage and presence – echoing in many ways the maritime tradition of logging one’s journey. Some have clearly returned many times to the site, marking each of the dates. It is a rare and unexpected typographic find.

Photography: Stephen Horsley