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...
View ArticleOlinda 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...
View ArticleTasmania 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...
View ArticleUluru 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...
View ArticleGuest 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...
View ArticleGuest 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...
View ArticleGuest 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleGrampians 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...
View ArticleTesting 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...
View ArticleFalcons 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...
View ArticleHiking & 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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