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Bushwalking

The above pictures from our walk to Lost World Plateau

Bushwalking with WorthWild

We love getting out into the Wilderness and are well equipped to take you with us! Whether an easy day walk or an epic Wilderness Experience, we’ll look after you.

I’ve been out an about bushwalking in the Lamington Area since 1974 when I first climbed Lost World. Due to its proximity to Brisbane and the rich rainforest wilderness, Lamington is my favorite place to walk. You can spend a day or a whole week in Lamington and, on some of the remote trips, you wont see anyone else for days.

Walk grading system

All of the walks shown below are scheduled to allow enough time for a moderately fit person to complete the distance with little difficulty. However, overnight walks require you to carry your food and camping equipment with you and this may present difficulties for people who are not used to backpacking. We suggest that you start out walking on day trips of up to 10 to 15 Kilometers distance only and then work up to the longer day trips – those in excess of 15 Kilometers and overnight trips where you will carry your camping equipment and food.

Making an enquiry

You can book or enquire about a walk by calling Martin on 0413 157 358 or email me from the link below.

Regular day walks cost $35.00 per day. Overnight walks are individually priced according to the number of people and the duration of the walk.

Transport is not included in the walks, all walks start and finish at the ‘trail head’. However we are very happy to give you a lift and to organize car pooling with you.

If you’d like to come along? Send us an email and I’ll call you with details.

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The “Stinson”

Lamington National Park

Green Mountains – Southern Wilderness Area

Unformed Wilderness Track

In February 1937, the Stinson airliner left Brisbane bound for Sydney and Lismore, never to return. In crossing the McPherson ranges, above the area now known as the Lamington Plateau, the aircraft was thrown from the sky by cyclonic winds and crashed into the jungle.

For ten days the wreckage went undetected, during which time three survivors struggled against the elements. Two of these, due to injuries sustained in the crash, were unable to leave the crash site. The third, Jim Westray, in a valiant attempt to fetch help, fell down a waterfall to his death. His grave now lies beside the spot where his body was found. But for the insight of Bernard O'Reilly, the remaining survivors would also have perished.

After careful forethought, O'Reilly realised that the airplane must have fallen along one of the ridges that form the Lamington Plateau. With this conviction in mind he set off alone, with no more than a loaf of bread and a bag of onions for food, to locate the Stinson. The success of his journey and his subsequent renown as a bushman is a part of local legend.

We conduct four different trips to the Stinson crash site;

Easy does it;

Stinson Day walk

8 Kms over one day

One day no special equipment required. You will only carry a day pack with your lunch and personal items.

Being only one day in duration this trek is ideal an ideal walk to this significant historic site. The pace is moderate with some steep uphill sections.

Moderate to Hard, because you’re carrying camping gear;

Stinson Explorer

36Kms over three days of SUSTAINED exercise

Bush camping, camping equipment required. You must carry a back pack with 3 days food and camping gear.

This trek provides the greatest challenge. Three days on the trail is a wonderful way to wind-down and refresh the mind. We follow the route that Bernard O’Reilly took in rescuing the Stinson survivors and out via Christmas Creek.

Amazing, Hard, Serious Fun;

Stinson Challenge

We complete the Stinson Explorer in ONE DAY!! 36Kms of SUSTAINED exercise

Taking only light packs and a minimum of food and equipment, we’ll storm our way through the rainforest on this 10 hour challenge.

Can it be done? – YES.

Is it easy? – NO.

Do you need to train? – YES

Is it fun? – It is an amazing achievement

Contact me for details – Price dependent on numbers

Moderate, easy pace, carrying camping gear;

Stinson Adventure

Not currently scheduled. Enquiries welcome

10 Kms over two days

Bush camping. No facilities. You must carry a back pack with camping gear and food.

If you would like to spend a little more time in the rainforest, this trek provides an excellent opportunity to enjoy a night camping under the rainforest canopy at Point Lookout or at the Stinson Campsite. You will have time to relax and to explore the forest and we’ll see the sun rise over New South Wales

The Stinson walk is our most popular, but listed below are some of the other areas that we visit;

Black Canyon – Lost World to O’Reilly’s

Green Mountains Section – Lamington

REMOTE THROUGH WALK – Navigation Assessment

24 Kms, 3 days

Difficult Untracked Wilderness

This is an epic journey up over the Lost World massif through to the ”saddle” campsite and up over Mount Wupawn and to O’Reilly’s via Echo Point.

The route is infrequently walked and therefore will provide a challenge in navigation for our trainee leaders who will be conducting this walk as a wilderness assessment exercise.

Black canyon is known as the jewel of Lamington. Hidden in the midst of the Southern Wilderness Area we will visit it as a side trip to be taken on day two. The canyon is reached by swimming through Red Rock Cutting and rock hopping up to Albert River to its source at Lightning and Thunder falls.

Echo Point – O’Reilly’s Section – Lamington National Park.

16 kms, 7.5 hours

Easy, tracked

Look out over ‘The Valley of Echo’s’ from a point high on the MacPherson Range looking south into the Tweed Caldera in northern NSW. This walk takes us to the southernmost point on the National Parks graded walking track system. Beyond this is the remote and isolated Southern Lamington Wilderness Area.

Echo Point is located in a saddle that is actually the very head of the catchment for the ‘Albert River’ which flows north to eventually flow through Beenleigh and into the Logan River at Carbrook and Redland Bay.

The lookout itself is actually within NSW.

‘The Border Track” – Lamington National Park

21.5 kms, 7 hours

Easy, tracked

This track follows the spine of the MacPherson Range and Connects the Binna Burra and O’Reilly’s sections of the Park. These cool temperate Antarctic Beech’ rainforests are the home of many endemic species of plants and animals of the ranges including the elusive but vocal Albert’s Lyrebirds and Rufous Scrub Bird.

Clear days provide spectacular views over the Lamington wilderness and the Mt Warning volcanic caldera of northern NSW

Toolona Creek Circuit

Return Distance 12 km Time 6 Hours

Easy; tracked

The Toolona Creek circuit branches from the Main Border Track at O'Reillys. We will walk past waterfalls and sub-tropical rainforest trees decked with lush tree gardens.

The track enters the Antarctic Beech forest near Wanungara Lookout - a favorite lunch spot - 100 meters from where we rejoin the Main Border Track.

Wanungara overlooks the Limpinwood Valley and Murwillumbah to the sea as far South as Byron Bay.

Mount Warning is prominent on the right and a view to the left over the ranges gives a glimpse of Point Lookout on Stradbroke Island. Both Toolona and Bithongabel Lookouts are on this walk.

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