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Canning Stock Route August 2019

April 7, 2020by digbygotts Leave a comment

  The 1820 km Canning Stock Route was initially established in 1910, with water wells being dug in a more or less straight line from Wiluna in central WA heading […]

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Three weeks on Tonga

April 5, 2020by digbygotts 1 Comment

So I was off to Tonga for at least a year as an Agriculture Advisor volunteer with Australian Volunteers International. It didn’t quite work out that way. With a lift […]

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Lifestyle, The Pacific

Corsica and the GR20

October 20, 2019by digbygotts Leave a comment

Corsica May 2001 We actually went to Corsica pretty much by accident, as we had been planning to walk in the UK but all their footpaths were closed after a […]

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Europe

Carnarvon Gorge Great Walk September 2019

September 20, 2019by digbygotts Leave a comment

So it was time for my first walk as a solo Grey Wolf. I booked my camps on-line for a 5 night, 6 day walk looping through and around Carnarvon […]

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Australia, Far North Queensland

Outback Matador

August 31, 2019by digbygotts Leave a comment

Outback Matador – Bull catching Australian Style Alison Gotts 1988. Kurundi is a large cattle station in Central Australia, where the back paddock is 140 km and a four hour […]

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Australia, Lifestyle, Northern Territory

The return to Epenarra

August 29, 2019by digbygotts Leave a comment

The Return to Epenarra – 20 years on. By Alison Gotts, November 2006 Digby and I were teachers in a 2 teacher Aboriginal school at Epenarra between 1986 and 1988. […]

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Australia, Northern Territory

East Timor 2005

August 27, 2019by digbygotts Leave a comment

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 […]

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South East Asia

Federation Peak – South West Tasmania 1968

April 11, 2019by digbygotts Leave a comment

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 […]

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Tasmania

Roaring Meg Falls and Pieter Botte

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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 […]

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Australia, Far North Queensland

Pennine Way September 2017

October 10, 2017by digbygotts Leave a comment

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 […]

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United Kingdom

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