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IN MY FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS

we were kids we walked everywhere – our family did not have a car so our little legs were used to travelling on foot. My first bushwalk would have been around the Dandenong Ranges near Melbourne and my first overnighter around Wilsons Prom in Victoria. From there the bug had bitten and progressed to Nepal, Panama, Columbia, New Zealand, PNG, and

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