the wild wanders blog.

You know that feeling when you discover a hidden gem of a trail — one that’s not packed with people, but full of breathtaking views, winding paths, and that serene stillness you’ve been craving? There’s nothing quite like it. The East Coast of Australia is packed with trails that offer just that: lesser-known spots that feel like your own private adventure playground.

Towards the close of 2021, we had a bit of a predestined moment where some seemingly unrelated occurrences happened to then come together as an “Ah Ha!”… Let me get to the point. If you’re familiar with the movie ‘Momento’...

I can’t believe it. The sun is ACTUALLY out, the sky is actually BLUE and we have finally turned off the heating in the van, for the first time. (For the moment.)

Honestly, this country just gets better and better. We’ve walked about a thousand miles, be it black sand beaches, airplane wrecks or waterfalls taking our fancy, and we’ve driven about the same – currently headed towards the famed yet sparsely populated, or travelled, westfjordlands, having driven the east coast in its entirety over the past few days. We’ve hiked for hours up and down extinct volcano craters, through steaming fields of ancient lava, to the edges of stunning falls; we’ve bathed in geothermal hot springs (although it was about 5 degrees out and raining so… Not as terribly glamorous as it sounds I guess).