I am a 61 year old solo female and love travelling into the Australian bush. How I envy you your trips. After just reading your fabulous description of the Otways Link Walk, and viewing the photos, I have decided that I will stay at Apollo Bay this weekend (even though it's going to be wet - best time for waterfalls) and do day walks in the area.
I will say, to solo females who would like to travel the 'no frills' way in Australia or overseas, DO IT. I backpacked round Malaysia, Wales, then India and Nepal. You need to do your research, use plenty of common sense, and develop a thick skin!!!!
I will be reading more of your exploits - you are bookmarked!!! Thanks.

You have inspired me. I'm now looking for a hiking buddy... P.S i love your adventure notes

Tops...a great read. thanks for making it available to inspire us. The photos are just surreal. I love how you have caught reflections in the water in northern W.a.

Stumbled on your site while looking for info on the Rees-Dart and ended up reading every track from start to finish over a few weeks. It was like a book I couldn't put down, a goldmine of tracks to put on the to do list and some to re-live through your great descriptions and beautiful pics.
Looking forward to more.

Hi there,
I wanted to let you know what a fantastic article you have on your website about Hotham's walks. I think visitors to our website www.mthotham.com.au would find it interesting reading, would you mind if we put a link on our website to the article? If you would like us to credit a walking club or person for the article we can do that. My contact number if you wish to discuss is 03 5759 4027.
Regards
Eliza Stokie

Just googled Nebelung and got your terrific site. I climbed Nebelung yesterday on a brilliant clear winters day 2,5 hrs from the car park and under 2 hrs down with a day pack! Nebelung has the best outlook on the castle! I'm 58 and walked the Morton NP for 30 yrs and still amazed at the Castle area. Thanks for your great account and the photos.

Hi,
Stumbled across your site when looking up Kiama information. Easy to read and great layout. I read your South Coast journey in 2004 from Kiama heading south. You'll be pleased to know that the land of coastal reserve between Kiama and Gerringong has now been gazetted as public use space. No more electric fences. In fact from Minnamurra Village in the north of Kiama township right through to Gerringong we now have 21 kilometres of great coastal walking track - called the Kiama Coast Walk.

Hi,
I'm looking to do the great walk on Fraser Island and I found your website very encouraging and beautiful. I just thought I'd mention there was a difficulty moving from one page to the next when I pressed the 'next' button. I luckily hit one of your stages of the journey in google so I knew the page names but if I'd started at the prologue I wouldn't have been able to view the other stages as pressing the next button took me to /F100 instead of /F101 (or something like that)
Happy traveling!
Ryan

Just stumbled across your site after Googling hiking in the Bungle Bungles - fantastic.

What a beautiful account of your walk to Mueller Hut and I fully appreciated you referring to the Maori term of Aoraki as it is more than just a name - it has a whole great legend of it's own.I just came back from that same adventure and stayed overnight.We had snow on the last 400m of the slope and most of the mountains were blanketed in snow as we would expect in May - so beautiful. I loved your presentation as you captured some flora and fauna along with the beautiful landscape.

I found your story about traveling through Vietnam and Cambodia stirred up some unusual feelings in me. I went there for other reasons than tourism, although I traveled in surrounding countries for fun later. I'm still not comfortable with the thought of going back to those places as entertainment, but it's nice to see the place as it is now and remember the beautiful parts. Too many ghosts there for my comfort, though, I'll just enjoy the pictures.

Jimmy at http://jamestwohats.com/BackPackBlog/

You have a brilliant site. I am thinking of doing the Mallacoota to Nadgee walk with my sons (11 and 14) in December. Was the navigation easy? And how was the walking on sand was it soft and hard going?

Many thanks

Paul

What a terrific set of pictures. thank you for showing them to us.

Hey guys,
Great job with the walking and i love the blog, i love that you visited our Narooma!

We often walk those same beached with the scouts, there's a little campground near the entrance to Brou Lake - a lovely spot for little local hikes.

I'll add a link to you's from my blog!
http://skyandseaonholidays.wordpress.com

cheers

You have created a lovely blog! Congradulations.

The abundant beauty you have captured in
your photographic pictorial is stunningly
beautiful. My eldest son is a landscape architect. I will send him this link in the hope he can be inspired by the one true Master landscaper you have so wonderfully portrayed.
Thank you both, Happy and safe trekking.
Hope there is more to come.
John J

Amazing - what a great way to document your journies, but also share information with people like me trying to plan a trip - this time to Patagonia. My question for you (if you take questions): did you go independently or with a guide on the W and also in Fitz Roy. I see pics with crampons on snow.

Fantastic photodiary...
Myself and a group of my cousins did the whole GOW in 3 days in march to raise money for MS (www.MS1000.org.au)
Thanks for putting this together
what an amazing country we live in...
Cheers

Such an amazing photodiary. Myself and a few mates are looking into the Fraser Island Great Walk hopefully this year and your site provided some great details and wonderful pictures. I'm really excited about this!

Many thanks for your interesting and informative site - we are about to leave for a trip down the Whanganui river and your comments are extremely helpful. Happy trails!