East Timor 2005
A working holiday running workshops as volunteers for Caritas in East Timor, hoping to help improve the quality and availability of various fruit species. After several successful missions working with […]
Author Archives: digbygotts
Federation Peak – South West Tasmania 1968
Here is my story about my first bushwalk in Tassie’s South West, feeling a little intimidated by the isolation and recognising a lack of experience in taking on the walk […]
Roaring Meg Falls and Pieter Botte
Bloomfield to Cape Tribulation via Roaring Meg Falls and Pieter Botte I recently realised that this 3-4 day walk is one which deserves to be recorded although it is definitely […]
Pennine Way September 2017
The Pennine Way is a 407 km trail in the UK running from Edale, just outside Manchester, to Kirk Yetholm just across the Scottish border. It was established as an […]
River Rafting in Nepal – an alternative viewpoint
Adventure and thrills in white water, but is that why we’re here? First Published by Earth Garden in about 1990. Alison Gotts, Cape Tribulation, Queensland Walking the Durba Marg, the main […]
Nepal 1997. The Annapurna Circuit and Sanctuary.
A 22 day circuit of the horse shoe shaped Annapurna Range, going over Thorong La at 5280m before descending and entering the Sanctuary for the climb to Annapurna Base Camp […]
Climbing Mt Kenya 2004
Mt Kenya loses in the altitude stakes to big cousin Mt Kilimanjaro, but we found it to be far more interesting as a walk, not just for the scenery but […]
Mt Kilimanjaro 2004
We climbed Mt Kilimanjaro with a commercial tour operator “Into Africa”, who had the reputation for looking after porters and not going too quickly, allowing participants to acclimatize to the […]
Central Australian Road Trip 2017
The first trip of our grey nomad life covering about 7500 km over 3 weeks on mostly unsealed roads to Alice Springs and beyond with the highlight being the crossing […]
The Great Ocean Walk 2017
We chose to walk this path independently for the full 8 days that is recommended by Parks Victoria, carrying camping gear and food for the whole time. It is also possible […]
