Outdoors stories

A quick dip...

We'd been for a walk through some woodland, down and around a valley, as we made our way back up to the car park we came upon a beautiful pool beneath a waterfall....

Andy Boura
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Predator

The travel brochure displays an idyllic medieval woodland and the facade of a 14th-century castle, so I head off to explore this highly anticipated tourist attraction. ...

DJ Heath
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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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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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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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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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