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Wednesday, 29 November 2017

The wild and crazy west - bushwalking on the Bibbubulum Track from Bow Bridge to Denmark

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The forest smells of sun-warmed rain. The trees by the track drip with water. It wets my boots and I feel damp leaves against my bare ar...
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Friday, 27 October 2017

Moses Rock and the first commandment in off-track bushwalking - Nymboi-Binderay National Park, NSW

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As the lay of the land drops away, we begin down a gentle slope. I notice Caz keeps stopping. Every now and then he looks around t...
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Sunday, 24 September 2017

Steep Drop Falls - two hundred years of wonder

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Everything is gone. The forest of stringybarks, manna gum and she-oak ends abruptly. The very ground drops away at a cliff.  A hole, mor...
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Sunday, 27 August 2017

Stone Country - an overnight bushwalking adventure in Gundabooka National Park, NSW

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This story is a reminder to never underestimate the small walks. The shortest off-track sortie can reap great rewards (I've said ...
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Saturday, 22 July 2017

The Red Rocks - Wollemi National Park, NSW

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Ahead lies our destination, Mt Dawson rising gently out of the surrounding plateau and visible through the trees as we stand atop some r...
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Sunday, 25 June 2017

The song of the wild lands - Girraween National Park, Queensland

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A lanky, dark-haired man strolls over to me in the car park. I am standing there making final adjustments to my pack. It bites into m...
Sunday, 21 May 2017

Walking the Dark Sky Park - New South Wales

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Journal entry: Packed backpacks with three days worth of food in the hope of finding enough water to stay out that long. Parked at Pinch...
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