Adventure
Kayaking Broughton Island
Broughton Island, popular with sea kayakers, is a beautiful place; but it hasn’t escaped degradation at the fate of humans. Mine and Garry’s paddling trip got me thinking about human middens over the ages.
Where the River Runs Wild
After many journeys down parts of the Colo River, in a place Garry loves and knows well, this solo experience is his biggest and boldest yet.
One Man on a Penny Farthing
Blair writes about his recent penny farthing ride down the Cooks River in homage to Jerome K. Jerome’s ‘Three Men in a Boat’, he links his ride to past experiences with dogs on the trail, and experiments with clay-model photos in location.
Mount Victoria to Leura
Two walkers kitted out with new packs, hiking poles and gaiters approach from the opposite direction and stop to ask if I’d seen a dog. One of them offers that perhaps it was a fox. “You can smell a fox”, I remark. Their incredulous looks make me wonder for a second whether I had suggested that humans can talk to foxes. Trying to explain myself, I offer: “It’s hard to describe the smell, but you can smell them”. Unconvinced, they smile nervously, abruptly say their goodbyes and head off down the track. This would be my only conversation on the track for the whole weekend.
Jessica Watson
A measure of our determination is how far we take our dreams. Inspiration and passion is one thing, but acting is another. Jessica Watson’s goal of becoming the youngest person, male or female, to circumnavigate the globe is testament to the power of acting on your dreams, and she hopes to inspire other young Australian women to act on their dreams too.
Voyage of the Plastiki
David de Rothschild doesn’t just want us to reuse our waste - he’s going to show us how.
This Duck Needs a Quack
‘This Duck Needs a Quack’ is an account of my day hiking and kayaking down Duck River – a little known tributary of Sydney Harbour flowing through the heavily urbanised western suburbs.
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