Deployment 38: Cabin Porn IRL

Yen & Fern, 2hrs North of Sydney.

Words by Declan Blackall · Photography by @declanblackall

“These boots are made for walkin’, and that’s just what they’ll do” - Nancy Sinatra.

I inherited these boots from my Dad; we had the same size feet. He used to wear them out to the markets on Saturdays, shoot the shit with all the guys who came from the country to sell apples, cucumbers and carrots so fresh they were still coated in soil. 

It’s great to stomp around in nature without worrying about what’s happening underfoot. There are so many sounds that we don’t get in the city. Silence obviously being one of them, but also those incredible Eastern Whipbirds. Their songs sound like laser beams pinballing through the forest. 

Dad would have been happy I ground my own coffee. He always used to do that. Never understood why I went out to buy it. Took it outside at sunrise, wearing his boots into the morning dew. I think he would have liked that, too. 

Yen, 2hrs North of Sydney.

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