I made it!
Noosa Marathon is done! My time was 4:17:56 It was definitely hard, but I have done hikes that were much harder on my body. I ran out of sugar during…
Getting ready for Noosa Marathon
Only 5 days until my first Marathon, the Noosa Runaway Marathon. I have done lots of training, enough that everything hurts and I can’t imagine running the distance as I…
Sunflower near Toowoomba
Toowoomba Sunflower Time
If you have never been for a drive at Sunflower time it is absolutely worth it, the fields are beautiful.
Seven days. Seven black and white photos of your life. No people no explanation.
Recently there has been a viral post making it’s way around FaceBook, a sort of 7 day photography challenge. Eventually someone nominated me - the challenge is to come up…
Toowoomba 3/4 Marathon
This is the longest run I have done yet, it felt OK - at least until around 30.5 km when the pain seriously begun. 3:08 is not so bad. The…
The Northern Alps stretch below you
Climbing Yarigatake, one of Japan’s ‘best’ hikes.
First day back in the Japanese Alps, it was a pretty serious day with a lot of up in a short time; tomorrow will be far, far worse. My goal is Yarigatake, at 3384m the fifth highest mountain in Japan; often considered one of the best climbs in the Hida Mountains.
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Paddling around Garden Island
A last minute decision last night and it was off for a paddle first thing this morning with a local meet up group to Garden Island, near Macleay Island just…
It is hard to tell just how white the sand is
Fraser Island, stunning!
Fraser Island is a stunning sand island just off Hervey Bay in Queensland, about 4 hours North of Brisbane. It is the world largest sand island and has no bitumen…
Mount Mitsutoge, a view of Fuji.
Mitsutoge-Yama is one of the closest mountains to Mount Fuji and has fantastic views of it, the lakes, the Minami Alps, Yatsu-Ga-Take and pretty much everything else in the area.
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The island is a small island about 4 km from the coast, a perfect distance for a days kayak trip.
Checking Out Coochiemudlow Island
Coochiemudlow (Coochie) is a small island off Victoria Point just South of Brisbane, Queensland. It’s often called the Jewel of Morton Bay, it’s very close to the mainland and has…
This old waterwheel was beautiful
Hiking The Magome-Tsumago Trail in in the rain
The Magome-Tsumago trail in the Kiso Valley is an original postal route in the Nagano Provence, the towns have been maintained in a mostly original state. Walking through the path passes through some beautiful forest, some original cobblestones and a bit of bitumen to remind you of modern times.
The day I walked from Magome to Tsumago was a rainy, cold day – it is easy to imagine what it was like to travel the hundreds of kilometres on foot as people once did.
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Enzansō
A lesson learnt this trip, don’t come to Japan in June, Tokyo is extremely hot and wet but most of the mountains are still covered in snow and not able to be climbed.
I wanted to go back into the Northern Alps but pretty much every route I investigated I eventually reached someone in the area and they told me that the route is still closed. It was in one of those research sessions that I came across the Otame-Ginza route from Nagano.
