A map I made as a sort of a joke about a lovely place in Brisbane – but it’s tiny and we didn’t put in our Family Bushwalks book.
Caesar’s Place
Glen Rock
Glen Rock State Forest has a little-used bushwalk and also a cycling / horse-riding trail along the creek to the Top Yards.
Dwyers Scrub
Lake Perseverance
A little-known trail described in “Bush Walks in the Toowoomba Region” by McKilligan and Savage.
Family Bushwalks in South East Queensland
My new book created with Gillian Duncan is now available for purchase at www.familybushwalks.com.au. It’s our third book, following two books of recreational trails for cyclists; this one is aimed at walkers and runners who want to go bush without committing to long distances or lots of climbing.
300 walks are described in detail including of course a brand new fully researched topo map showing all points of entry, resources like water and shelter, and making clear the effort required to complete the walk.
How to use Purple Pen
Purple Pen is free software used to put orienteering courses onto orienteering maps. I’ve written up for Orienteering Queensland a guide for new users.
Here it is: www.markroberts.id.au/OQ/OQ_PurplePen.pdf
Duke of Edinburgh Expedition
Here is a map I made for the Numinbah Valley Environmental Education Centre for the upcoming Duke of Edinburgh Expedition where youngsters walk 15km from Springbrook to NVEEC then kayak 5km to the Western Boatramp.
Varsity College Oval
Varsity College is introducing orienteering into its curriculum so I offered to make a map of the oval across the road. It doesn’t have a school campus like most schools.
Directions to The Lab
The Lab is a weekly opportunity for “high functioning autistic” (aka Asperger’s) teenagers to get together and make things on their computers with guidance from adult mentors. It’s challenging to find so I volunteered a map:
Great Adventure Challenge 2015
Two A3 maps of a chunk of the Gold Coast for the Great Adventure Challenge 2015 run by Gary at maxadventure.com.au and raising remarkable sums of money for the Starlight Children’s Foundation. Participants ran, paddled and rode between 4 and 7 hours to complete the courses:
