The Outdoor Life

MATT MCCLELLAND, WILD WALKS Explore Sydney’s Aboriginal heritage with these great local walks The Hornsby* Ku-ring-gai area is rich in history of the people who lived,...

Summer gardens are relaxing and vibrant places to soak up the beauty of nature, rest up and recharge. Filling your garden with dry tolerant...

NICK HODGES Like many Australians I have friends who live in this country and who are married to Britons, and British friends who are married...

MATT MCCLELLAND WILLUNGA TRIG WALK - PROMISES TREES AND WATERWAYS FOREVER! 40 mins, 1.4 km Return moderate track Feel like you’re on top of the world with...

Local walking expert Matt reveals his ten favourite walks around our bush-fringed city - and why they’re on his list of top ten. Sydney is...

Something caught my eye through the window of the national park's tea shop. There, only three metres away, in the fork of a tree...

The Birrawanna Track Walk details 2 hrs, 4.4 km on a return moderate track Starting with a coffee from the cafe at Bobbin Head, this walk follows...

Trevor Weatherhead, Australian Honey Bee Industry Council* & Mike Rayner, North Shore Beekeepers Association There’s no greater thrill than tasting the first extraction of honey...

17.2 km, 8 hour hard walk This bushwalk explores some of the most spectacular scenery in the Hornsby area, featuring big views with big hills,...

Most people visit Taronga Zoo to see the animals but when I went along recently I found myself absorbed, not in the caged creatures,...