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61 walks ticked

This Year

3
Number of Walks Ticked
32.5km
Total Distance Ticked

All Time

61
Number of Walks Ticked
558.3km
Total Distance Ticked
Name Date Difficulty Distance/Duration
White Rock Ridge Hike (White Rock - Spring Mountain Conservation Estate)
10 Mar, 2023
Hard
6.5km
2 hrs
Nice easy hike nothing to strenuous.
Warrie Circuit (Springbrook National Park)
11 Feb, 2023
Hard
17km return
5 hrs
Lovely hike so many waterfalls and swimming holes. Bit of a longish hike for us older hikers. We did it anticlockwise and it was relatively easy getting down to the meeting of the waters and spending some time there for lunch and a bit of a dip in the water. Good spot for soaking tired feet. Bit of a slog from there back to canyon lookout car park. We took around 7 hours with quite a few breaks. We started before 6am and we were the only ones there (Just as we like it) luckily it was a shady track.
Mount May (Mt Barney National Park)
22 Jan, 2023
Hard
9km return
5.5 hrs
Second time up. We did it in just under 6 hours. Very steep up and down most of the way. 4wd track back to the campsite is a bit of a killer very slippery with all the loose rocks. Most of the tracks are narrow with lots of loose rocks. Awesome day but tiring.
Mt Cordeaux (Main Range National Park)
31 Dec, 2022
Medium
6.8km return
2.5 hrs
First night hike to see new year in. Bit slower in the dark lots of slippery rocks and roots. Got to top with 20 minutes to spare. Only saw faint flashes of the fireworks in Brisbane city 110klms away through the clouds. The clouds lifted about 15minutes to late. Back down and tucked up in bed by 4.30am.
Killen Falls (New South Wales)
29 Dec, 2022
Medium
3km return
20 mins
Short walk more or less just for a dip. Very busy very worn track.
Caves Track (Lamington National Park)
17 Dec, 2022
Medium
5.2km return
90 mins
Started at lower car park and walked down to information centre and started the walk there and avoided the road on the way back as the gets busy. Nice easy walk lots of views. Plenty of bird life.
Lower Ballanjui Falls (Lamington National Park)
4 Dec, 2022
Medium
11km return
4 hrs
Nice easy walk. Lots of leeches about. Great view of Ballanjui Falls. Nice vantage points of Egg Rock Little Egg Rock and Turtle Rock. Also nice views of Advancetown Dam and Pages Pinnacle.
Ships Stern Circuit (Lamington National Park)
19 Nov, 2022
Medium
21km
7 hrs
Awesome hike but rather a long one. Some great views along the way. Nothing to strenuous just tiring over the last 2 klms. Worth the extra 1.2 klms to view the Ballanjui falls absolutely beautiful.
Mount May (Mt Barney National Park)
1 Oct, 2022
Hard
9km return
5.5 hrs
Absolutely awesome hike climb scramble. Fantastic views of Mt Barney Mt Maroon Maroon dam Mt Greville and quite a few more amongst the Main Range. Took us about 5.5 hours with a few rest stops along the way. Very steep track from the start. Lots of loose rock to make it a bit tricky.
Mt Greville (Moogerah Peaks National Park)
10 Sep, 2022
Hard
6km return
3 hrs
Awesome hike today. Up through waterfall gorge up to the summit of Greville and back down Palm gorge. Hard going and quite steep. Good views of Mt Barney and Mt Maroon and the main range also Moogera dam.
Daves Creek Circuit (Lamington National Park)
3 Sep, 2022
Medium
12km return
4 hrs
3rd time around this circuit. First hike in the rain. Very windy and a bit cold. Conditions just made it more adventurous especially climbing up surprise rock.
Baxter Falls - Southern Approach (Kondalilla National Park)
14 Aug, 2022
Medium
7.6km return
3 hrs
Nice walk down to falls. Then we went across suspension bridge and hiked a further 5klms to mapleton falls.
Mt Maroon (Mt Barney National Park)
30 Jul, 2022
Hard
6km return
5 hrs
Fourth time up. Always impressive always a hard slog up and a harder slog down. Awesome views.
Pages Pinnacle (South East Queensland)
23 Jul, 2022
Hard
6.7km return
2.5 hrs
Unreal hike today. So lucky with the weather. Had the ridge to ourselves.
Twin Falls Circuit (Springbrook National Park)
16 Jul, 2022
Medium
4.6km return
90 mins
Nice easy ramble. Good track. Lots of bird life and the sound of running water makes for a nice walk.
Bare Rock track and Morgan's Walk (Main Range National Park)
9 Jul, 2022
Medium
13km
4.5 hrs
Awesome walk awesome weather
Red Rock Walking Trail (Central Queensland)
22 Apr, 2022
Medium
5.6km return
2 hrs
Nice walk along secluded beaches and around small headland.
Paperbark Forest Boardwalk (Central Queensland)
19 Apr, 2022
Easy
600m return
30 mins
Nice easy stroll. Heaps of mossies.
Pages Pinnacle (South East Queensland)
29 Jan, 2022
Hard
6.7km return
2.5 hrs
Hard slog up from car park to the first ridge. Was quite muddy from the recent rains. Traversing the first ridge was not to difficult would have been easy as back when I was 30. Fantastic 360 degree views of the Advancetown Dam and Numinbah valley and Egg rock. Bit of a climb down to the base of pages pinnacle and then a scramble up and across another ridge to the top. Reasonably easy return trip staying below in the rainforest. Lovely day.
Coombabah Lakelands Conservation Area (Coombabah Lakelands Conservation Area )
2 Jan, 2022
Easy
5km return
1 hr
Nice flat walk. Loads of kangaroos. We saw 1 koala and we had a encounter with a rather large Red Belly Black snake which Sandra nearly stepped on. We had a bit of rain and a lot of the tracks were under water.