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Bushwalks: Mount Olympus : 10-12 November 2012 Mid October was the original time planned for a walk to Mount Olympus, but the weather wasn’t nice enough so it was put...

Rich land, Wasteland by Sharyn Munro My rating: 4 of 5 stars View all my reviews

Bushwalks: White Timber Mountain : Sunday 14 October 2012 This was the second attempt on this peak; the first being cancelled a couple of weeks back due to snow cover.  My o...

Geocaching: Freycinet Bushwalk : 3 – 5 October 2012 As we were going on a bushwalk to Freycinet Peninsula the potential geocache finds in the area were checked and several ...

Bushwalks: Bluff River Gorge : Thursday 12 July 2012 Gradually the cloudy sky broke up and there was plenty of sun for this bushwalk taking us past the three caches in t...

Photo album from a walk to Bluff River Gorge

Geocaching: Beside New Town Creek : Wednesday 4 July 2012 We had two reasons for walking up beside New Town Creek today; one was to deposit three moveable caches we had recent...

Geocaching: Off to the Thumbs : Wednesday 27 June 2012 Well the weather was just ideal for a bushwalk to the Three Thumbs and to collect a few geocaches during the trip. Ho...

Geocaching: Checking on the Frog : Thursday 28 June 2012 A message came through that Kirby the Frog could not be found so we planned a walk to check this out. Before going,...

Future Bushwalks: Three Thumbs : Wednesday 27 June 2012 This is walk we have done regularly every few years in the last couple of decades.  It is fairly straight forward, e...

Geocaching: Myrtle Forest : 20 June 2012 A bushwalk to the top of Collins Cap was in the plan for the day, with a couple of caches to hopefully be the bonus. On the wa...

Geocaching: Near the Southern Outlet : Friday 22 June 2012 It was a nice sunny, if quite cold day, and we decided to go for a walk in the suburb of Dynnyrne and collect a geocach...

  I have an interest in plants but I was only able to watch about 10-15 minutes of How To Grow A Planet but soon got fed up with watching some bloke  dominating the screen and switched it off when we just about zoomed in the flora in his nose.   There was some nice scenery but thrown in at times, but gee wiz what a useless program. No wonder I rarely look at TV. I did get a laugh at Shaun Micallef's MAD AS HELL though.

Geocaching: Binalong in the wet and dry : On a trip to Binalong Bay our hope of accumulating the maximum planned caches was thwarted by a day of almost nonstop rain, but fortunately ...

Geocaching: Tinderbox Hills : This was day when we were looking after our granddaughter, so it was decided to go for a walk on the TinderBox Hills Track and collect a fe...

Geocaching: Waterworks Stroll : 1 June 2012 For a few weeks we have been meaning to head back to the Ridgeway Park and collect a cache out on the eastern side. There was a...

Bushwalks: Trestle Mountain : Mountain River Route Wednesday 16 May 2012 Perhaps the only advantage of going to Trestle Mountain via the Mountain River track is the f...

Friends of Mt Field: Old Pack, Wombat Moor and Platypus Tarn Tracks Mai... : Saturday  19 May 2012 As there was a good turnout for the day, we split into two groups. One lot of 4 went off to complete the drainage on...

Geocaching: Tasman Duo : 9 and 10 May 2012 It was hoped to be Tasman Trio as the story below will reveal . Hauy We camped overnight at Fortescue Bay and plann...