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I recently holidayed on Magnetic Island off the coast from Townsville in QLD. A network of walking tracks are a great way to enjoy some amazing scenery and appreciate the diversity of vegetation from one side of the island to the other. The vegetation varies from small pockets of  rainforest  to open eucalypt woodland.The walks vary from short and easy to longer with a moderate degree of difficulty. As the island is only about 10km at the widest point, the longest walk is only about 8km but can… Continue

I regularly travel down to Peaceful Bay to stay in a friend's holiday home and have seen signs for the Denmark - Nornalup Rail Trail. I decided that I would like to do this tail at some stage and finally went down last week with friends and achieved this goal.

It was difficult to get any detailed information about the trail. The Shire and the Local VIC directed me to the Rail Trails website which I had already looked at and felt didn't give enough detailed information and the map was…

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I recently returned from a holiday in New Zealand where we stayed with friends for a few days. They are keen mountain bikers and wanted to take me, my husband and the friends we were travelling with, mountain biking over the Rimutaka Ranges behind Wellington and had borrowed bikes for all of us. Of the four of us, I was the only one who had ridden a bike recently (my husband bought me a bike for Christamas). The other three had not ridden for 20+ years and were not too keen to…

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