Great Walks

ISLAND PARADISE

What's your earliest bushwalking memory?

When I was a kid I grew up wandering in the jungle of New Guinea as we lived on New Ireland on a plantation. I have a vivid memory of when I was nine years old I walked with my dad from our plantation called Belik on a track that goes from east coast to west coast at the shortest point; we walked for a few kilometres and he showed me the plants

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