A Bushwalker’s Paradise

By Linda Tancs

Also known as hiking, bushwalking is a uniquely Australian term. In New South Wales, Guy Fawkes River National Park is a paradise for bushwalkers. A highlight is Escarpment Walk, which will take you to Chaelundi Falls and its lookout down over the Guy Fawkes River Valley. From there, you can visit Lucifer’s Thumb, a large rock that offers sweeping vistas out over the gorge and Guy Fawkes River. The park is a significant conservation site with amazing biodiversity. There are 24 threatened animal species you might encounter; watch for the brush-tailed rock-wallabies that can often be seen in the park’s rocky areas.

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Billed as the Great North American Eclipse, a total solar eclipse will cross North America on April 8, 2024, passing over Mexico, the United States and Canada. The path of the eclipse begins in Mexico, entering the United States in Texas, and traveling through Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. The eclipse will enter Canada in Southern Ontario, and continue through Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Cape Breton. This will be the last time any solar eclipse will be visible within the United States until 2045. 

Be prepared! So long as supplies last, you can purchase eclipse glasses and other accessories, like a phone app and photo filter, from American Paper Optics, a NASA-approved manufacturer. The link in the preceding sentence is an affiliate link, which means that if you click on the link and purchase merchandise from the page, then I may receive a small commission.