Australian Geographic

Finding the beauty in bogs

O PHOTOGRAPH our feature on bogs (see page 44), James Bugg camped overnight in the dense habitat of Victoria’s Mt Baw Baw. With a map and GPS coordinates, he set off at first light to find two bogs. “They were completely out of sight and hidden

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