In January, I hiked the Great Ocean Walk, a 97 km trail in south-eastern Australia. Running from Apollo Bay to the Twelve Apostles monument, and generally paralleling the Great Ocean Road, this trail is a somewhat easy tour of Australia’s rough and rugged “shipwreck coast”.
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The Great South West Walk was one of my favorite hikes. Read on to find out why.
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At 2,228 meters (7,310 ft), Mount Kosicuszko, located in the Snowy Mountains in Kosicuszko National Park in New South Wales, is the shortest of the “seven summits”, the high points of the continents. It is also the one easiest to reach: it can be accomplished with a relatively easy day-hike on well-formed trail from the nearest town. And since I was relatively nearby after completing the Great South West Walk and Great Ocean Walk, it seemed an obvious mountain to summit.
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One last day on the Great Ocean Walk brought us to the Twelve Apostles, a set of limestone stacks just off the coast.
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Our second “long” day in a row, and penultimate day on the Great Ocean Walk, took us from Johanna Beach to Devils Kitchen.
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