WALKS TO REMEMBER

PRACTISING social distancing in my lounge room this Easter, I kept thinking about what I was missing. You see, for the last 20 or so years my mate David and I try to do an annual multi-day bushwalk. In the early years this did not really happen but for the last 13 years we have managed to almost do this. A 2020 trek was planned in January, but the bushfires put paid to that. We then planned for Easter, but the coronavirus came along. So, I just spent Easter reminiscing about our earlier bushwalks and chuckling about past misadventures.

As two office-bound Sydney lawyers in our 60s, we enjoy walking in the wilderness away from everyone. David has been a keen bushwalker most of his life. For me, this came in my 40s when I joined a group trekking the Kokoda Track and got hooked on the whole walk in the middle of nowhere, carry