This is not ‘The End’. Some police report may well “have been prepared for the coroner”, but so ignored by the police and coroner – abrogatingly dismissed as ‘death by misadventure’. Such a media cliché is but meaningless reporting, unworthy of journalism. This article has morphed all the media guesswork and tripe. This article, indeed if not a ‘web-book’ due […]
Continue reading »Readers, this is not a one-minute read; it’s become a tad more than 100 words. Frankly, this is a work in progress and one’s currently up to now 30,000 words overall thus far, though we’re getting close to finishing this collated manuscript. One estimates that once completed, this article (applying AI-guesstimate averaging of 100 words per minute) the 30,000 words […]
Continue reading »[1] ‘1998 Sydney to Hobart Yacht Race‘, 1998, ^https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Sydney_to_Hobart_Yacht_Race [2] ‘Chronic, Heavy Cocaine Use Associated With Long-Lasting Impaired Function‘, 1999-08-03, by Nih-National Institute On Drug Abuse, ScienceDaily, USA, ^https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990803073334.htm [Accessed May 14, 2019]. [3] ‘Chronic, Heavy Cocaine Use Associated With Long-Lasting Impaired Function‘, 1999, Science Daily, ^https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990803073334.htm. [Accessed May 14, 2019] [4] ‘Myles Joseph Dunphy (1891–1985)‘, 2007, by Richard […]
Continue reading »(1) Steven John Ridd (at age 61) Steven Ridd CPL(H), BBus(Mgt), DipOutRec(Hons), DipProjMgt in the context of this web-book is Tour Director of Nature Trail. Nature Trail is a trading entity of Wistmans Wood Trust [ABN 51 965 308 493] registered in Australia with A.S.I.C. since 10th December 2013. As for Steve, you can read more about his background and […]
Continue reading »
At times, Nature Trail’s motivation in this magazine blog is triggered to write a pensive piece and share some reflections of our own with readers. But we’re not religious and certainly not evangelical. The particular trigger in this case has just been a reflection of us here in Katoomba emerging from a widespread impacting torrential rain event over the past […]
Continue reading »
Blue Mountains {city} Council seems focused on pedestrian safety of late, finally. This is a positive development for the benefit of improving the safety of locals and visitors alike. So, we note new speed humps in Katoomba town centre area. However, none of which are actual speed humps that require vehicles to slow down without experiencing the most minor of […]
Continue reading »
Blue Mountains tourism has suffered yet another despairing setback following the pandemic et al. This time, our only rail service from Sydney has being severed for months, followed by the government clichéd public announcement that “buses will replace trains“..yet again! So this has caused passenger chaos as full 8-carriage trains packed from Sydney unload at Springwood, and commuter buses shuttle […]
Continue reading »
On a very windy Sunday morning New Zealand rock climber Richard Mills (36) with his climbing buddy tackled one of more than a dozen cliff ‘walls’ off Sublime Point, Leura. But a rock (about 30cm across) dislodged and fell on Mill’s head. His buddy quickly called emergency services and local Blue Mountains Police Rescue from Katoomba and NSW Ambulance Special […]
Continue reading »
Tragically again, two more people have been killed by a landslip in the Jamison Valley just south of the village of Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains. Yesterday, Monday 4th April 2022, a group of tourists (a family of five from Britain) embarked on an unguided day hike along the Wentworth Pass loop track. They likely followed the UK-based website […]
Continue reading »
Wollangambe Canyon might need some more warning signage, if only people would heed the advice. Two weeks after the so-called “whirlpool” tragedy on Saturday 2nd January, when two women drowned on a bushwalking club lilo trip, two more lilo tourists got themselves lost in the same canyon and had to be rescued. This time they were more downstream in what […]
Continue reading »
For the past five years I have invested in a start-up tour operation based in Katoomba in the heart of the Blue Mountains World Heritage Area. Tour operators will be well aware of the qualification courses, the business setup and compliance costs before government allows you to step one foot commercially into a ‘national’ park. So tour vehicle purchased, equipped […]
Continue reading »