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Hiking The Colours of Australia

If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you’ll now that I spend a lot of time hiking in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney and occasionally treat myself and jump further afield to discover other great spots around Australia that offer different types of bushwalking terrain and experiences. That’s one of the amazing things … Read more

Shooting Landscape Photographs

… and why I’ll never be happy with these photos Last Updated Jul 24, 2021 A couple of months ago, I decided to run a weekend photography walk in the Blue Mountains for my bushwalking club. Due to the normal pace and style of our club’s trips, there’s never usually any time to take photos other … Read more

Join My Team and Walk in Her Shoes

It’s no secret that I love to walk. Whether it be to the office in the morning, to the pub across the road or over a mountain on a weekend, however I do it by choice. All over the world, there are women and young girls who spend their days walking not for enjoyment, but … Read more

How to treat drinking water

Last Updated Dec 02, 2024 Living here in Australia, a country that is ironically surrounded by water, with a bloody great desert in the middle and frequently parched by drought, I now take it for granted that I need to carry a good amount of drinking water on hikes and need to know how to … Read more

Canyon Safety and Code of Ethics

Last Updated Nov 22, 2019 There’s something about sliding into a canyon and feeling it’s ancient green embrace that makes me feel like Frodo. As the walls climb higher around me and the water calls me forward to join it tumbling over boulders, sliding down ropes and committing my life to 9mm of confidence, I … Read more

Galong Creek – Megalong Valley

Last Updated Jul 9, 2020 I heard a whisper about a place called Galong Creek back in 2008. It was from an old-timer, a very experienced bushwalker (one of my elders) and her enthusiasm and obvious passion for this humble little waterway got me curious. If you’re a regular visitor to the gorgeous Megalong Valley, … Read more

Kanangra Creek to Kanangra Creek (via 1000m up/down)

Last Updated Jul 9, 2020 The three peaks (the lazy way) continues… The 3 day, “three peaks (the lazy way)”, adventure continues in this video, which shows the lengths (and heights!) I go to, to try and visit all three of the Blue Mountains 3 peaks, in the easiest route possible. Which actually isn’t easy at all … Read more

The Three Peaks – The Lazy Way

Last Updated Jul 9, 2020 The Three Peaks in the Blue Mountains of NSW, Australia has been spoken of in hushed and reverent terms by bushwalkers for many decades. There are many stories (tall and true) about the epic feats of physical fitness and mental toughness that is needed to undertake the challenge under the classic trip guidelines. … Read more

Tips for Hiking Safely

How not to be another missing bushwalker! Here in Australia, we’ve jumped head-first into Spring time which means that not only are the wildflowers coming out in abundance in our National Parks, but so too are hikers, that’s bushwalkers to us Aussies! Therefore, it seems like a good time to cover off some of the … Read more

Hiking for Fitness and Weightloss

If there’s one blog post that I’ve been putting off writing, it’s this one. It probably sounds strange, but as someone who has had a lifelong battle with their weight, to start talking about fitness and weightloss in such a public space as this, makes me feel pretty vulnerable and exposed. You see, if you never … Read more

How to find Latitude Longitude Co-ordinates from a Topographic Map

Any mathematician, engineer or architect will tell you that numbers are beautiful. There’s something pure, absolute and precise about them. There’s also something staggering about the infinite way they just exist. Numbers help us define things and in a world where things seem out of control and in chaos, numbers bring order and structure. They … Read more

Hiking with Kids

[Guest Post : Linda on the Go] When I attended last year’s ProBlogger conference it was a whole new world for me. As with all things new, it’s always nice to see a touchpoint – something of the familiar – in a completely foreign environment. I found that familiar something with the lovely Linda Anderson from … Read more

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