Week 2; setting and places!

The settings in this book are based on real places. Hell is a reasonably accurate description of Terrible Hollow, in the Australian alps, near Mt Howitt in Victoria. The devils staircase; small cliffs, like steps descends in to the hollow. Tailors stitch is the crosscut saw, which is a long ridge of rock that runs for miles from Mt Howitt to Mt Specultion,through Big hill and Mt buggary. It gives great views into terrible hollow. I have asked my self if the 'hermit' was an actual person. Well yes, it is accepted by locals that a hermit did live in and around Mt Howitt and the Terrible Hollow for many years. In the late 1970's there were eye witness sightings. Scott Vickers-Willis, a hiker in 1986, found a carved handmade walking stick concealed in a bush on the edge of the Terrible Hollow. This stick lends startling support to the hermit theory. Other locations used include china walls, a rugged mountainous area on private farmland near Khancoban in NSW, and the long wooden bridge across the Murrumbidgee river at Gundagai in NSW. I guess that the setting could be found in any Australian state.