Great Walks

Q&A

Wanting to know more about Belinda’s big adventure, we asked her a few questions.

GRW: What was your first day on the walk like?

Belinda: We had a very whirlwind start to our adventure. We had only chosen the National Trail to hike two weeks before we left and received the official guidebooks on the day we were to start our drive from Brisbane to Cairns. We took a minibus from Cairns to Cooktown and the driver managed to drive into a ditch and roll the trailer containing ours and the other passenger’s bags. Luckily no one

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