Johnny Boy's Walkabout Blog

Woden from Mt Taylor Monday evening 21 December: Mount Taylor Triple – M/E. The plan for this walk is to go to the summit of Mount Taylor three times via three different routes, taking in the fabulous views of Canberra,...

Pleasant creek sections of the walk Saturday 19 December: Southern ACT Walkabout – M/M,ptX Enjoy the drive through the centre of Namadgi National Park to the ACT’s southern border. Walk the fire trail going east along the border through Burnt...

Rob Roy from the Mt Tennent track Saturday 12 December: Mt Tennent – L/E Start from the Namadgi Visitors Centre and take the trail to the top of Mt Tennent and return. On track all the way. Distance is 14kms...

Southwell graves in the Weetangera Methodist Cemetery Thursday evening 3 December: Weetangera Methodist Cemetery – S/E. Continuing a birthday theme established last year, walk from The Pinnacle via the Bicentennial National Trail across the back of Hawker to the Weetangera...

Bullen Range Tuesday 10 November: Bullen Range Nature Reserve – M/M-R. A circuit around the Bullen Range Nature Reserve. Starting from the Tidbinbilla Tracking Station cross the Bullen Range to the Murrumbidgee and follow it south to Pine Island. Back...

Evening views from the Cooleman Ridge Nature Reserve Monday pm 9 November: Cooleman Ridge – S/E. Meet at the car park on Namatjira Drive just on the Kambah side of Fisher near the speed limit sign. Great views along the...

Sandstone cliffs to the south and east of Gilberts Gap from Gilberts Mountain Saturday 7 November: Gilberts Mountain – M/M. Starting from near Nerriga, this Budawangs walk follows fire trails then heads to and up the sandstone mountain west of...

Stormy weather near the Majura west fire trail Thursday evening 5 November: Lower Majura – S/E. Meet at the car park on the right just past the last house on Antill St. We will walk along a track that runs...

The Bog Hut site | Max and Berts Hut Tuesday 3 November: Max and Bert’s Hut via The Bog – L/M-R, part X. From the Hospital Hill Lookout on the Boboyan Road walk north to north-east and down to Dry...

Views to Civic in the south-east from Black Mountain, directly north of Black Mountain Peninsula Monday am 2 November: Earlybird walk – A different Black Mountain walk – S/E. Starting at 7 am, we will go for a walk for...

Ex-Bruce Hallers from ANU and friends (and grandchild) at The Sanctuary, TNR – older but little wiser Wednesday 28 October: The Sanctuary, Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve – S/E. A wheelchair-paced lap of the Sanctuary with pommy friends Bill and Lainey. 9...

View into the second gully from 1100m contour Tuesday 20 October: Tallaganda National Park – L/R/ part X. The walk is in the northern section of Tallaganda National Park.  From the junction of the Forbes Creek road and the North...

Thursday evening 15 October: Navigation Refresher #7 – GPSr and PC software. An evening looking at interfacing GPSr to PC. Use of digital mapping software (eg. OziExplorer, Garmin’s BaseCamp) and maps (eg. NSW LPI TopoView digitised 1:25000 topo maps for...

Pheasant Hill, a 1-point Percy Tuesday 13 October: Bobeyan vales and hills. This walk at Bobeyan (officially Boboyan) visits several sites relating to the lives and deaths of the locally significant Brayshaw family.  We enjoy the valley landscape then climb...

The south-east slope of Mt Majura Monday 12 October: Early Bird Walk – Mount Majura – S/E. Starting at 7 am, we will go for a walk for 1 to 2 hours mainly on urban bushland tracks to the summit...

8am Floriade Walk Friday 18 September: 8am Floriade Walk – S/E . Join a Heart Foundation walk through Floriade before the gates open to the public. 17 of us met at the Early Morning Floriade Walk sign, near the Commonwealth...

View from the slab to Mt Gudgenby and Mt Mouat (The Fortress) on the SE Scabby Range View from the slab with marble along the Yankee Hat ridge including Mt Burbidge and the Mavis Ridge Tuesday 8 September: Yankee Hat Slabs...

Fitz Hill, Glendale drystone walls and Billy Range Saturday 5 September: Glendale Drystone Walls and the Billy Range– M/M-R,ptX. From the Brandy Flat Walking Track northern track-head, climb 300m to the north through a little scrub to visit the amazing...

Very proud of my wife who today was awarded Lifeline’s 2015 Women of Spirit award. Huge thanks to our dear friends Rachael, who did all the hard work in writing Gay’s nomination, and Wendy, who is Gay’s dearest friend. A...

A little snow on Mts Scabby and Gudgenby from the slab Tuesday 1 September: Rocks above Breakfast Creek – M/R. A walk  to a pleasant small plateau edged by massive boulders and slabs, to the east of Gudgenby. From Yankee...