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Grand Canyon Track: One of the Blue Mountains National Park’s most stunning...

    This post was contributed by Lori Dwyer... Reformed perfectionist. Former clown, social worker and superhero. Easily pleased. Book worm. Tea drinker. Blogger, freelance writer, and social media...

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Olinda Falls via Mechanics Track: When hiking with kids doesn’t quite go as...

  We can theorise all we like about how to hike with kids. The problem is, these things don't always go as planned. It's the last day of school holidays and we decide to take The Chop and The Fairy...

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Tasmania with Kids – Part 2: A Taste of the Tarkine at Corinna Wilderness...

  “Everything’s so… wet.” Sleep deprived, and already more relaxed than I’ve been in at least a couple of months, this is the best description my brain can manage. Christine, one of the friendly...

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Uluru and Kata Tjuta: A healing walk in the Red Centre

    Maybe some trips were never meant to be written about... Or maybe just not straight away. I took this one way back in July 2012, during what was probably the shittiest time in this crazy life of...

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Guest post: Falling in Love with Mount Cordeaux | Main Range National Park – QLD

  It’s been a long time coming, but this is the eighth post in the Aussie Hiking Bloggers guest post series for Bushwalking Blog. A couple of years back, I started asking all of the other Aussie...

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Guest Post: Bald Rock National Park – More than just a big rock

  This is the ninth post in the Aussie Hiking Bloggers guest post series for Bushwalking Blog. A couple of years back, I started asking all of the other Aussie hiking bloggers to tell us about a...

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Guest Post: The glorious southern Grampians – Mt Sturgeon & Mt Abrupt

  This is the tenth post in the Aussie Hiking Bloggers guest post series for Bushwalking Blog. A couple of years back, I started asking all of the other Aussie hiking bloggers to tell us about a...

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A week in the Blue Mountains – Part 1: Aboriginal Discovery

  “When Europeans first arrived, they thought the Aboriginal people were shipwrecked here. They couldn’t believe people survived with so few material possessions.” Lori and I are hanging out with...

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A week in the Blue Mountains – Part 2: Valley of the Waters (and the National...

Photo credit: Tony Heyward, flickr   Passing Conservation Hut, we descend slowly on timber steps through open forest scattered with tall Eucalypts, Banksias, and Xanthorrea. Black cockatoos screech and...

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A week in the Blue Mountains – Part 4: Scenic World and Ruined Castle

  Lori and I are enjoying a latté on an outdoor deck perched at the edge of the Jamison Valley, 270 metres up from the lush rainforest on the valley’s floor. We’ve seen this valley and the incredible...

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Grampians Sunrise: A dawn hike to (almost) Boronia Peak

  “Turn your face to the sun and all of the shadows fall behind you.” – Charlotte Whitton You know those family camping trips where nothing goes quite as planned? Our recent trip to the Grampians had...

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Testing out the bung knee: East-West Walk & Flinders Peak – You Yangs...

There hasn’t been a whole lot of hiking going on since my ill-fated attempt at the Larapinta Trail and, as those who know me will have already assumed, it’s been doing my head in. After almost two...

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Falcons Lookout: The easiest way to see Werribee Gorge

We wake to another gorgeous spring day and I decide it’s the perfect opportunity to show Lori another of my favourite places near Melbourne – Werribee Gorge. My knee is still good, but I’m under strict...

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Hiking & Coffee: Warburton to Mt Donna Buang (via Mt Victoria)

We had our eyes on this track for a number of months before walking it. A workmate, hiking and MTB partner, and fellow coffee lover, David King, had planted the seeds back in February when we were on a...

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