October - November 2023

Great Walks

Australia’s ultimate walking magazine

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Win A Three Capes Walk!
WE love giving away trips and our good friends at Life’s An Adventure have provided a three-day Three Capes pack-free guided walk for two (see pg 37 for all the details or visit greatwalks.com.au/LAAcomp1123). Their Walk Three Capes tour explores the
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Slow And Steady
WITH glorious Queensland weather on the May long weekend forecast we decided to walk part of the Sunshine Coast Hinterland Great Walk. May becomes the start of our walking season as the steamy months of Queensland summers are unbearably hot hiking fo
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Repair And Renewal
The 426km Hume and Hovell Track stretches across southeastern NSW, from Yass to Albury. Finishing at the Murray and passing the Murrumbidgee and the Tumut rivers, this long-distance track traverses boardwalks, single track, fire trails and quiet back
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Seaside Solitude
IT’S 7:15am, showers are forecast and I’m sending my four-year-old up the toughest part of the new Tomaree Coastal Walk in Port Stephens, NSW. In her pink tracksuit, she’s a ball of bouncing bubblegum in a muted sage landscape. As all adventurous par
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The Search For The Lost Stinson
IN February 1937, a Stinson airliner left Brisbane on route for Sydney via Lismore with seven people on board. It never arrived in Lismore and despite an intensive search no trace of the plane was found. Nine days after the crash, Beaudesert grazier
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It’s A Jungle In There
THE Whitsundays, a destination usually associated with the aquamarine waters that ebb and flow around its 74 islands, is popular with tourists who line up for boat tours and reef days spent sailing, paddling, snorkelling and connected to all things b
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Picture Perfect
Kaye Gilhooly, Hobart Tas Camera: Samsung S10 Kaye: "Day 73 of our 137-day walk across France and Italy. Although gaining altitude for days since Grenoble, it was still a stiff climb up to the plateau sitting at 2003m. Paul watched on as I braved a q
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One’s Company
“ALL by yourself?” the little man at the dam had said. It is a nasty question to answer, the way he put it. It is the question of gregarious, colonial man, and it contains outrage, and it means: What the hell’s the matter with you? Few people are wil
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Reclaim Your Wanderlust
‘WANDERLUST’ is a buzzword of modern travel. It’s everywhere in the media, from advertising and press releases to blogs and newspapers. One of the UK’s most successful travel magazines is called Wanderlust, and a collection of stories by legendary tr
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Living La Dolce Vita
ITALIANS truly understand living ‘la dolce vita’, (‘the good life') – embracing the ethos of good food, good wine, being with family and friends, enjoying good health and being surrounded by beauty. Enjoying life was just the lure to sign up for a mu
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Grief And Grit
DONNA (50): “We first met working together as nurses. Divorce was what brought us together, instead of letting the trauma of separation inhibit us, we chose to be free and go on some adventures. It all started with a few charity walks, Sydney Coastal
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Hiker Heaven
IF you could design the ideal hiking playground you’d probably want some soaring forests, craggy mountains topped with a few photogenic dollops of snow, grassy meadows sprinkled with wildflowers, and some crystal clear lakes so you can soak it up twi
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After The Flood
BENEATH a wavy black line, a sign outside the Renmark Club reads “Flood Level 2022”. The flood peaked six months ago on the 26th December, 2022. A network of levee banks helped save the South Australian town of Renmark from the floods. Now that the f
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From The Bush To The Battle
IT’S been 105 years since the First World War ended (1914-1918) and new books on that long ago conflict seem to continue to hit the bookshelves. One of the new books I have just read is the biography of the great figures of WWI, Australian General Si
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What’s In My Pack?
MY wife and I began bushwalking together 40 years ago as students in Edinburgh, driving to the Highlands of Scotland in her old Golf Mark2. When we moved to Australia 20 years ago, we were delighted to discover a whole new range of tracks. Tasmania m
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EVERY GRAM COUNTS Planning For Multi-day Hikes
YOU’VE left the gym behind, stretched your legs during COVID and been bitten by the nature bug to immerse yourself in forests and now want to take it to the next level to try multi-day hikes or through walking. How do you make that transition when th
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Build It And They Will Come
GREAT Walks takes five with Kris Sheppard, Senior Project Officer for the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service who has been working on the new 27km Tomaree Coastal Walk (see our feature, pg 26) for two years. GRW: What's your earliest bushwalking
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Welcome To Paradise!
I grew up in South-East Queensland before moving to Western Australia’s Margaret River Region, and my earliest bushwalking memory is hiking Mount Maroon with my folks. In fact, my dad slipped on some loose gravel, took a tumble and nearly plummeted o
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Just Breathe
I think often of how the early mariners first saw this obdurate coast. Of what they thought, looking across the choppy, windswept sea to the sandy beaches, the veiled shape of what would later be called the Ironbound Range, and the many teeth-like pr
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Home On The Range
THE Stirling Ranges is the only major mountain range in southern Western Australia, rising more than 1000m above sea level, surrounded by flat plains as far as the eye can see. There are many hiking trails, both day and overnight options. The scenery
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Picture This
IF you want to improve your photography the best way is to talk to the professionals then get outdoors and practice. Wilderness Photographer of the Year presented by Mountain Designs judges, Matt Palmer and Jackie Ranken take five with Great Walks. G
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Spoilt For Choice
GRW: What's your earliest bushwalking memory? I grew up in Tumut on the edge of the Snowy Mountains. For years, my father who was a local accountant, would drive the twisting dirt road from Tumut up to Yarrangobilly Caves. It was there, when I was o
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It’s In The Bag
MANY of us have a warm and cozy relationship with our sleeping bag that we hope will last for many years to come. With these care and cleaning tips, you can make sure you and your bag stay together for the long haul. 1 DOWN PRODUCTS, whether they are

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