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A LIFE IN THE BUSH

it comes to my childhood I don’t have a specific first bushwalking memory but being raised by walkers there are plenty of memories of walking with the family, certainly a lot of the good memories come from standing on top of hills and mountains and feeling like you’re on top of the

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