The six-kilometer Morelia walking track starts from the Manorina car park on Mt Nebo road between Mt Nebo and Mt Gloriou... [more]
Until this Easter, I hadn't been to Moreton Island since 1982. The main thing I remember about that trip was my border ... [more]
I'm sitting in my sister's beach shack on the East Coast of Tasmania. It's cold and I'm wearing my Ugg boots, thermal u... [more]
I recently did the Ships Stern walking track at Binna Burra with eight fellow bushwalkers. We planned on starting the w... [more]
This year 2019 is the 100-year anniversary of the Spanish Flu pandemic in Australia and Queensland. The pandemic had be... [more]
I didn't plan on doing any bushwalks on my recent trip to Tasmania to visit family. On my last visit, a year ago, I did ... [more]
The Brisbane Bushwalking Club put 'Twelve Mountains in Twelve Months' on the program for 2019. The aim is to start with... [more]
It was my second bushwalk into the lower portals in Mt Barney National Park. The first time was in December 2016. That ... [more]
Back in June 2017, I went on a bushwalk to Daves Creek Circuit at Binna Burra on a very wet winter's day. I wrote abou... [more]
Although I've lived close to Bunyaville Conservation Park for eighteen years, I had only been there twice before I recen... [more]
On a recent bushwalk at O'Reilly's in Lamington National Park just before Christmas, Tracey had her favourite colour mau... [more]
With Christmas coming, I've started to think about presents to buy people. I've also been remembering presents I've rece... [more]
I was looking forward to another bushwalking trip to the 17 kilometre Warrie Circuit at Springbrook. I had been there ... [more]
It was my third attempt to go on a bushwalking trip to Northbrook Gorge via Eagles' Nest. I had to cancel the previous ... [more]
My bushwalking club planned a weekend camping and bushwalking trip recently to O'Reilly's in Lamington National Park. I... [more]
I recently wrote about a fateful bushwalking trip I did to Frenchman's Cap in Tasmania in 1970.
After that story was... [more]
I always wanted to visit the Bunya Mountains. I had heard how beautiful it was and how lots of Aboriginal tribes used t... [more]
Every year, all the bushwalking clubs in South East Queensland get together for a base camp. The pilgrimage is an annual... [more]
I was alone, exhausted and freezing on a remote mountain track in the middle of winter in Tasmania. It began to snow. I... [more]
I've lived in Brisbane for 17 years but have only been to Bellbird Grove in D'Aguilar National Park three times. The fi... [more]
Brenda, one of our bushwalking club leaders planned some walks to Karawatha Forest on the Southside of Brisbane. I went ... [more]
I moved to Townsville from Tasmania in the 1970s. At first I didn't like the city. I thought it was hot and dry, but ov... [more]
In the 1980's, I met an old man, Fred Bargent in Townsville, who told me about the early days of Magnetic Island. Fred'... [more]
I've always been interested in history, especially convicts and penal settlements. This year I've visited two penal colo... [more]
I've been spending a fair bit of time at the Victoria Park Golf Club recently. I haven't been playing golf. I've been ... [more]
I hadn't been to Mt Tamborine for a very long time. That time, I had only visited the shops and hadn't done any of the w... [more]
The Mt Greville bushwalk was classed as a grade 5 walk by my local bushwalking club. The club describes grade 5 walks as... [more]
The bushwalking club I belong to has started having some weekday walks. I've been going on a few of these recently. I l... [more]
I had walked the Coomera circuit with a friend from Darwin about 15 months ago and really loved it, so when I had the ch... [more]
It had been a long time since I had kayaked the Upper Noosa River in the Cooloola Recreation Area of the Great Sandy Nat... [more]
Last Spring, I climbed Mt Cordeaux and walked to Bare Rock at Cunningham's Gap. It was a wonderful walk with flowering ... [more]
I've kayaked up Nundah Creek and Cabbage Tree Creek in Boondall Wetlands and seen the bird hide from the water on Nundah... [more]
The last time I did any serious bushwalking in Tasmania was a very long time ago, way back in the 1970's. That one was a... [more]
The Innisfail Historical Society is holding an event at the Shire Hall on Saturday 10th March at 7 pm for residents of t... [more]
I was fortunate recently to attend the opening of the "Tasmanian Love Stories" Art Exhibition at the Deloraine Creative ... [more]
I recently read on a bushwalking blog site about how expensive it was to fit you out for bushwalking. I know good qualit... [more]
It was my second time paddling at Victoria Point. I wrote about the previous trip here.
This time, we met at W H ... [more]
I finally got to go on the Artists Cascades walk after my initial attempt was cancelled due to impending storms a few we... [more]
The walk to Greenes Falls at Mt Glorious is a nice easy bushwalk for families. The well-marked track starts at the Maia... [more]
In early December I attended the Brisbane Bushwalkers Christmas weekend. We camped at the Baden Powell Scout camp at Sa... [more]
When you go bushwalking in Queensland you have to watch weather reports. Back in September this year I was booked to go ... [more]
I remember around 2001, when I was working in an office in Alderley with the Australian College of Rural and Remote Medi... [more]
Bindarrabi is just over the border into NSW. It is bordered by the Koreelah National Park with world heritage listed ra... [more]
When Monique first suggested we go for a paddle at Raby Bay, I didn't know what to expect. I remembered all the media fr... [more]
When I was twenty, I got lost in the Tasmanian wilderness in winter and spent a freezing night in the bush. When I saw t... [more]
Years ago, a friend in Townsville gave me some old photos of tree felling, showing men on planks cutting trees down by h... [more]
The weather forecast was pretty grim. Heavy rain was predicted for Saturday. It was the day I was looking forward to go... [more]
When my friend Bea suggested we should go to King Island one day, I thought she meant King Island off the coast of Tasma... [more]
My friend Marg, who is a busy schoolteacher, asked me to take her to my favourite op shops during the school holidays as... [more]
I love going out into the bush and seeing wildlife, but lately, the wildlife has been coming to me at home in my suburba... [more]
I've been lucky to see the two types of Australian Lyrebirds. Years ago walking on the Lyrebird Falls walking track, in... [more]
I only recently heard about the Banks Street Reserve from two friends who live in Ashgrove. One was walking there regula... [more]
I was interested in a weekend activity on the Brisbane Bushwalker's list of future walks. This one was a weekend camping... [more]
I used to live in a little cottage on a lovely beach north of Townsville. I was recently reminded of my beach home when... [more]
I hadn't been to the Glass House Mountains since the late 1960's early 1970's until this July. Back then I had recently... [more]
I've discovered you really need to walk alone to see much wildlife. I did the short 5 km walk around the Araucaria track... [more]
My friend Margaret had two weeks holiday from her busy job as a schoolteacher at a large Brisbane high school. We were p... [more]
I hadn't done any rock hopping for many years. A lot of our walks involved rock hopping up creeks with lots of swims al... [more]
I enjoyed reading Anna's article about Camping at the Goomburra Section of the Main Range National Park in Weekend Notes... [more]
