I've always seen beautiful Quamby Bluff from my sister's backyard in Westbury, Tasmania where she has lived for over... [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]
In the 1970s a friend in Townsville showed me a diary she had obtained. My friend and her husband were collectors and us... [more]
It was my ninth bushwalking trip from McAfee's Lookout to Enoggera Reservoir over Mount Arum in the Southern Section o... [more]
This was my fourth walk on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland Great Walk. It is a wonderful walk and I hope to go back an... [more]
It was my third trip on the Sunshine Coast Hinterland Great Walk. This time it was a last-minute change when our pla... [more]
There are so many interesting places to explore in Tasmania. On my trip to the East Coast a year ago I visited ... [more]
I was visiting family in Tasmania for two weeks. I always like to do a couple of bushwalks in areas that I've never ... [more]
I've been to Noosa National Park many times before, but on a recent walk through the park, I saw some things I'd nev... [more]
Back in 2017, I spent a weekend at Mapleton in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland and did a walk on part of the Sunshine ... [more]
I had been to Lake Wyaralong three times before a recent trip. The first time I kayaked up the lake and visited the ... [more]
It was my second trip to Bunya Mountains. It rained a lot on my last visit almost two years ago, so we couldn't ... [more]
I recently visited Noosa North Shore for the first time. I have been to Noosa, Noosaville and Tewantin many times, ... [more]
We were supposed to climb Mt Beau Brummel in August but that trip was postponed because of a COVID lockdown. I final... [more]
A few months ago, I walked a couple of days on the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail with my bushwalking group. On that tri... [more]
We met early at Jolly's Lookout on Mount Nebo on a recent Sunday morning before driving to Dundas Road, Mt Glorious to b... [more]
I have been on two previous trips to Lake Wyaralong. On the first trip, I kayaked on the lake up to the area where t... [more]
I've been visiting Scamander for many years because my sister bought a beach house there about 25 years ago, but until m... [more]
I recently went on a bushwalk to Lake Manchester. I had never been to the area before and found it very interesting.... [more]
The Cooloola Great Walk is a 102 kilometre trail that stretches from Noosa North Shore to Rainbow Beach. It has a variet... [more]
I recently had the opportunity to walk part of the Brisbane Valley Rail Trail. The 161 kilometre trail runs from Wulkur... [more]
A year ago, I had to postpone a trip I had booked to Tasmania to visit family. I used my Jetstar voucher to fly down the... [more]
I hadn't heard of the Blue Tier Giant Tree walk until my recent trip back home to Tasmania. I was staying with my siste... [more]
Tasmania is a wonderful place for bushwalking and people travel from all over the world to walk there. The most popular... [more]
It was my second Ship Stern Circuit walk. I did the first one two years ago in 2019. We had some drama on that one with ... [more]
There are lots of shared walking and bike tracks around Brisbane. I recently discovered one close to the Royal Brisb... [more]
In November 2019, I went on an interesting walk from Tewantin to Sunshine Beach on the Sunshine Coast. I had been to Te... [more]
I was very lucky to go on a fantastic trekking trip in the Northern Hills of Vietnam recently and got home just before A... [more]
I kayaked across to Coochiemudlo Island about six years ago with a friend. We had a swim and lunch and then kayaked bac... [more]
I've done some walks at O'Reillys including the Albert River Circuit, Box Forest Circuit, Toolona Creek Circuit, Morans ... [more]
Every year my bushwalking club has a Christmas party weekend camping trip with a variety of bushwalks and kayaking trips... [more]
A few years ago after I finished working full time, I got back into bushwalking and kayaking. I also joined a line danc... [more]
The Brisbane City Botanic Gardens is a haven for wildlife in a busy city. I recently had a casual job for a few weeks a... [more]
Toolona Creek Circuit in Lamington National Park at O'Reilly's is a beautiful 17.4 kilometre walk through world heritage... [more]
I had to wait a few years to get onto one of my bushwalking club's popular Rimfall weekends. I had heard it was a great ... [more]
Every year, the bushwalking clubs in South East Queensland get together for their annual Pilgrimage. I wrote about atte... [more]
My bushwalking club planned a walk from Ballina to Lennox Head in NSW. They planned to leave Brisbane around 5.45am, dr... [more]
I only had a vague knowledge about Mt Ninderry on the Sunshine Coast. I had heard of it but didn't know where it was un... [more]
The first time I climbed Mt Cooroora was sixteen years ago in 2003 soon after I moved to Brisbane. I remember it well b... [more]
I had kayaked around the Tinchi Tamba Wetlands in 2016, but I had never walked around the area. The thing I remember mo... [more]
I'd wanted to do the Yul-yan-man track since I saw it in January this year. I had just climbed Mt Beerburrum as part of... [more]
In 2003, I bought a house in Brisbane, which was very close to the Jinker Track, which bisects Bunyaville Forest near Al... [more]
I'd heard lots of stories about the bushwalk to the Piper Comanche plane wreck in D'Aguilar National Park. I'd heard the... [more]
The last time I went to Toowoomba was very stressful. I was driving up from Brisbane to run a workshop at the hospital ... [more]
I've walked around Enoggera Reservoir and kayaked on the dam there many times, but until recently I'd never been to Gold... [more]
The last time I saw Lake Moogerah was from the rock slabs on Mount Greville. I wrote about that bushwalk here.
A ... [more]
Northbrook Mountain is in the D'Anguilar National Park south west of Mount Glorious near Brisbane. I went on a bushwalk... [more]
Marion and Lou had been trying to get us to go on one of their bushwalks with our local bushwalking club for months. Be... [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]
