I've dived on the Great Barrier Reef before, but never anywhere else in Australia, so I figured a couple of days in Sydney would be educational. Today I did two dives at a site called Voodoo...

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Five days in Sydney sounds pretty good until you think about the 24 hours of flying required in each direction to get there. That's why I've added a few days of adventure...

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The excitement of the Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon always starts on the Thursday before when the secret location is revealed...

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After Upper Flood the day before, we planned for a relaxing trip into G.B. cave on Sunday...

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Upper Flood Swallet, in the Mendips, is home to one of the largest recent discoveries of new passage in any British cave. Rachel arranged a trip led by Mike Richardson of MCG...

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We'd planned a trip to Dan yr Ogof for Saturday, but the rain during the week forced a cancellation. I was a little surprised when Brendan suggested Llanelly Quarry Pot instead...

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Kapiti Island, 5km off the coast just north of Wellington has been a nature reserve since the 1950's, and has been free of all introduced mammals since the last possums were eradicated in 1996...

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The Tongariro Crossing was billed by Lonely Planet as the best one-day walk in the world a few years ago. We'd always planned to include it in our itinerary...

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