The cover for the Great Walks April-May issue has been revealed and it’s of a hiker enjoying the Mackay Highlands in Qld.
That photo is for our story on the 56km Mackay Highland Great Walk where you’ll experience cool and cloudy rainforest, towering trees, dense palm groves, and dramatic cliffs, peaks and spires.
Our main story for the issue is on Morton National Park in southern NSW where our writer Dan Slater had his work cut for him as he bush-bashed his way along the wild trails of the Budawangs.
“After an early-morning car shuffle, we’d started down the undulating fire trail in good spirits, and walked straight into a UXO (unexploded ordnance) zone. A helpful sign informed us that ‘Bushwalking off track, erecting tents, campfires and digging may cause UXO to explode’ (and presumably then become XO),” he writes.
“Terrific. To add to our terrain woes, the Trip Hazard rating had been upgraded to ‘Extreme’, with chopperfulls of fist-sized rock chips deposited on the track’s low, muddy sections.”
We also explore Tassie’s ever-popular Three Capes Track, SA’s Fleurieu Peninsula and Bungonia NP in NSW before heading overseas to explore the Spanish island of Mallorca, tropical Fiji and Croatia in eastern Europe.
Our Walksmart section is all about bush survival - from top outdoor survival gear to wilderness leadership we make sure if or when things go wrong in the bush you are properly prepared!
We also have two competitions in this issue - one to win a guided walk for two along Tassie’s Bay of Fires (click here to enter that one) and another one to win a guided walk for two to walk parts of England’s South West Coast Path AKA the Salt Path which is the title of a best-selling book, and now a movie, about couple who got rid of all their possessions to walk the challenging 1000km walk (click here for that one).