Category Archives: TRAILS – Camping & The Outdoors

Fraser Island Road Trip

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Fraser Island is a magical place. 4 of piled into a Prado and drove from Mackay down, some serious km but totally worth it. We were there for March, was a bit overcast but mostly great. Swam in all the usual places, got to do some fun 4WDing, was one of the first camping trips that Claire and I did together. Traveling with four in the car is great fun, always able to give the driver a rest, had some good chat.


I loved those sunnies, haha.


Great place to swim


Stuck my camera in a lake and took a snap… worked pretty well!

Fun on the Great Walk

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The Great Walk is a trip in airlie, 33km from memory, an amazing bushwalk where you come out right in the middle of town.

I saw a massive python sunning itself on the trail, I threw a stick near it to wake it up! It saw me and got scared and left.

I also remember dropping my camera from the bridge into the river, fortunately it was shallow and a shockproof waterproof camera.


I used to be skinny!

Sea Kayaking around Shute Harbour

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We got there and had a practice, he trusted me with a single kayak (everyone else had doubles) which I thought was interesting. Just because I was an agent in the area suddenly I was a good kayaker, despite never having done it before?  Is ‘kayaker’ a word?

Anyway we kayaked around for a bit, it was good fun powering along trying to keep up with the instructor and the doubles, they were going at a leisurely pace and it wasn’t too hard to keep up, but I got a semi-workout from it as well. Although it could have all been in my head since I wasn’t feeling great. But we went out to an island and played around there for a while, before going back. The instructor was telling everyone how this girl he knows was kayaking up the east coast or something, and it was starting to sound like a good idea for me. Just got to get a spare $5k to spend on equipment (read: it will never happen).