Outdoors stories

Overcoming fear

Churning stomach turning to jelly, knees knocking, nausea rising…

I seemed to have been born with an inbuilt fear of heights, as those physical re...

Deb Williams
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Beach Bounty

I am greeted by a million twinkling stars glistening on the sunlit sea. Blue sky above me, ocean before me, coastal forest behind me, beach sand bene...

Deb Williams
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Weekend in a tree house

The three children were beside themselves when it was announced that we were going to exchange our home for a tree house for a few days....

Deb Williams
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Car troubles did not deter us

We confidently prepared and set off from South Africa in 1984 for a three week holiday in Namibia. My husband had converted an old 1600cc Kombi into ...

Deb Williams
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Shaking my chakra

Despite being born under the sign of Aquarius I’m not a new-age kind of girl. I don’t meditate, I'm not vegetarian and incense makes me sneeze....

Genevieve Frew
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How to make a driveway and plough a field with an ex

Ok, so I've bought a patch of scrub an hour west of Brisbane, 3 acres, as much as I wanted 100 or more, 3 would have to do for now. ...

Dave Crankston
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