“JULY 1st, 1991: Sitting on a bed back in Santa Elena after an exhausting five days hiking up Mount Roraima,” my 30-year-old diary reads. “I went up with four others, Mark (S ...

Five kilometres from Tullah in Tasmania's west and is one of the most beautiful lakes in the region. The lake and surrounding countryside are magnificent with myrtle, sassafras and ...

WHEN I was a child in our household we were always busy. One of my favourite memories was a couple of trips we made to Mt Beauty where we used the location at the foot of Mt Bogong ...

AS I stood at the bank of the Daintree River, looking desperately from right to left trying to detect the slightest hint of crocodile, I fantasised about a 4WD coming to our rescue ...

IF I was Kelly Slater, I would be frothing. On what is my first visit to Margaret River, I am blown away by the surf breaks that line the rugged Indian Ocean coastline. No wonder t ...

I’M not a religious man, but some things are definitely worth praying for. Some circumstances are so important, the alternative so dire, that asking a favour of The Almighty is w ...

Time: six days | Distance: 40km + side trips | Grade: challenging Day 1: From the carpark, follow the Port Davey Track across the plains before turning south to climb up Moraine A. ...

IF you enjoy lugging a large backpack around unfamiliar and challenging terrain then you might want to stop reading this. However, if you fancy exploring pure wilderness with a gui ...