Bushwalking & Australian Travel

My new site Wandering Danny now holds my overseas travelogues.

Australian Trips

Bushwalks

There's a full log of my bushwalks, with some longer writeups. Highlights:

Equipment

Some brief notes on bushwalking equipment,with more specific pages on the Dunlop Volley (the bushwalker's shoe of choice) and bushwalking food.

Books

Some bushwalking books.

Check out my review of Rick Shine's Australian Snakes or my many other book reviews, especially the bushwalking, travel, exploration + Australia categories.

Some notes on trips I'd like to do.

Legacy links to overseas travelogues:

Hong Kong, Brittany (2007)
Kaikoura to Kahurangi: New Zealand's Nelson + Marlborough (2006)
Mongolia and Beijing (2005)
North Island New Zealand (2005): Coromandel, Tongariro, Waikato
South Iceland + Scotland/England: walks, birds, buildings (2003)
Otago, Southland, Fiordland: New Zealand travelogue (2003)
New Zealand South Island: Westland + Southern Alps (2002)
North Pakistan & Western China: Chitral, Gilgit + Kashgar (1999)
India (Maharashtra & Rajasthan): with an Oxfam study tour (1998)
England, Catalonia, and France: London, Toulouse, Paris (1997)
Java + Bali, California + Arizona (1994)

News & Links (from my blog)

the ABC's Four Corners is a mouthpiece for the Cato Institute - ABC

NSW has the lowest Green vote of the Australian states/territories - ABC

boats and the Australian election - BatteriesRedux

does lyme disease exist in Australia? - SMH

NSW schools might get ethics as an alternative to scripture - SMH

last year I spent a day in Emerald, in central Queensland - Emerald travelogue

Other People

Some reports by other people, including France and the French, in which my sister writes about living in France. And external personal sites and old links.

Other Sites

For bushwalking discussion, try aus.bushwalking.

Organisations
Bushwalking Confederation
Orienteering Australia
Wilderness Rescue
Sydney Uni Bushwalkers

Government
Bureau of Meteorology
Geoscience Australia
Dept of the Environment
NSW DECC (was NPWS)

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It's not quite how I'd have put it, but the Macquarie dictionary defines bushwalking as "the sport of making one's way on foot through the bush, often on tracks designed for this but sometimes for longer periods through virgin terrain." The Australian "bushwalking" is not far in meaning from "hiking", "trekking", "tramping", or "rambling", for those of you speaking other Englishes.

This was, to the best of my knowledge, the first bushwalking page on the Web, but is now just a personal site, not the comprehensive resource I originally envisaged.