I had big dreams the year that Oscar was born to do all the things that I loved to do, only with a baby, including hiking in the Dandenongs and seeing the autumn maples. Well… Things didn’t quite go to plan. The reality of being the parents of a newborn was quite unlike anything we could have imagined, and we were both (naively) a little surprised to discover that a baby, despite being small in size, did not just slot…
Mathias Track ticks a lot of our boxes these days when it comes to the perfect hike. With Oscar just having started to walk and increasingly unhappy in our soft carrier…
The best hike is the one that you’re actually going to do, and that’s what the Merri Creek Trail was for us. See, originally we had planned to tackle the Werribee…
The last time we hiked Cape Woolamai on Phillip Island, it was 2017. The flies almost drove us to insanity under a hot January sun as we made our way through…
When you jump in a new (second-hand) car and head off to the horizon, there are worst places to end up than the Dandenong Ranges. I wrote that when we first…
A good pair of shoes is hard to find, but in a good pair of shoes a girl can conquer the world. Personally, I’ve always had a bit of a love-hate…
My intention was to stay fairly active during my pregnancy, which was somewhat derailed by the fact that I slept almost non-stop for the entire first trimester. When I finally emerged…
