Danny Yee

Bushwalking & Australian Travel

Overseas travelogues are now on Wandering Danny.

Australian Travelogues

Bushwalks

There's a full log of my bushwalks, with some longer writeups. Highlights:

Equipment

Some brief notes on bushwalking equipment,with more specific pages on the Dunlop Volley (the bushwalker's shoe of choice) and bushwalking food.

Books

Some bushwalking books.

Check out my review of Rick Shine's Australian Snakes or my many other book reviews, especially the bushwalking, travel, exploration + Australia categories.

Some notes on trips I'd like to do.

Legacy links to overseas travelogues:

Hong Kong, Brittany (2007)
Kaikoura to Kahurangi
New Zealand's Nelson + Marlborough (2006)
Mongolia and Beijing (2005)
North Island New Zealand (2005)
Coromandel, Tongariro, Waikato
South Iceland + Scotland/England
walks, birds, buildings (2003)
Otago, Southland, Fiordland
New Zealand travelogue (2003)
New Zealand South Island
Westland + Southern Alps (2002)
North Pakistan & Western China
Chitral, Gilgit + Kashgar (1999)
India (Maharashtra & Rajasthan)
with an Oxfam study tour (1998)
England, Catalonia, and France
London, Toulouse, Paris (1997)
Java + Bali, California + Arizona (1994)

News & Links (from my blog)

photos and notes from a recent bushwalk - the Box Vale Track
an online bush navigation course - aburke
a gloomy perspective on Australian housing - Bloomberg
"Prices in the property market will fall 30% by 2010... Australia is headed for a once-in-100-year real-estate slump"
the flaws of the Australian network censorship trial - ThinkOfTheChildren
a new blog about leeches - Bdellanea [via SUBW]
horses, cows, and dogs are the most dangerous animals in Australia - SMH
"Two people were killed when their cars struck emus, another person died after a vehicle struck a sheep, and an elderly person died after tripping over a pet cat."

Other People

Some reports by other people, including France and the French, in which my sister writes about living in France. And external personal sites and old links.

Other Sites

For bushwalking discussion, try aus.bushwalking.
Organisations
Bushwalking Confederation
Orienteering Australia
Wilderness Rescue
Sydney Uni Bushwalkers 		Government
Bureau of Meteorology
Geoscience Australia
Dept of the Environment
NSW DECC (was NPWS)
Sponsors
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It's not quite how I'd have put it, but the Macquarie dictionary defines bushwalking as "the sport of making one's way on foot through the bush, often on tracks designed for this but sometimes for longer periods through virgin terrain." The Australian "bushwalking" is not far in meaning from "hiking", "trekking", "tramping", or "rambling", for those of you speaking other Englishes.

This was, to the best of my knowledge, the first bushwalking page on the Web, but is now just a personal site, not the comprehensive resource I originally envisaged.

Danny Yee