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What a week on the water 🌅🚣‍♀️Walkabout Training has just wrapped up three Be Active, Be Alive sessions, and what an inc...
24/04/2026

What a week on the water 🌅🚣‍♀️
Walkabout Training has just wrapped up three Be Active, Be Alive sessions, and what an incredible celebration of movement, place and people it’s been.
From a saltwater paddle around Harriet Island, weaving under bridges and through our beautiful waterways, to a sunset glide across Lake Gregory as black swans wheeled overhead, and tonight’s golden‑hour paddle at Sandy Hook — every session reminded us how lucky we are to live and play here.
The best part? The people.
We loved seeing all ages and abilities getting involved — including some amazing ladies approaching 70, and a mum who rang to ask if her three kids might be too young. They weren’t. Packed into our three‑seater 17’ Prospector, those kids finished the session grinning from ear to ear — smiles that said it all.
Tonight we were also joined by four women from Taiwan, here on working visas, who soaked up the sunset, the water, and eagerly joined the hunt for the elusive Ceratodus (Australian freshwater lungfish). Moments like that are what it’s all about — shared experiences, connection, and quiet wonder.
A terrific week of paddling, laughter, and community.�Thanks so much to everyone who joined us — and to Council for supporting programs that help people reconnect with movement, nature and each other.
💙 Be Active. Be Alive. Be on the water.

Walkabout training will be offering longer sessions in May/June as part of Outdoor Queenslands BOOM (Building Our Outdoor Movement) program. This will be a program that will contain three sessions over a week that will allow participants to gain more skills and confidence with longer sessions. Please see link to sign up! https://outdoorsqueensland.com.au/boom/. .

Walkabout training is either training or being trained. Part of our foundational ethos really. We’ve spent much of the ...
18/04/2026

Walkabout training is either training or being trained. Part of our foundational ethos really. We’ve spent much of the last two weeks down at Wagga Wagga with 314 upgrading our abseiling skills. It was a well run very informative course with one small hitch, I was able to bring my son to come along to the training and when I asked him to throw me a bottle water bottle he did so quite literally. Directly at my head where it struck my eye! A quick trip trip to the Wagga Wagga Hospital and five stitches later I only had to miss a day of the training! On the way home I stopped in at the crew of and picked up a couple of canoes. Throughout the year we are going to replace our ageing fibreglass canoe Fleet with some models from both Swift and Esquif canoes which will be far more suitable for the mix of flat water and white water use that we do here at Walkabout training. Exiting times.

We’re running free canoe sessions again as part of the Bundaberg Councils Be Active Be Alive program. All ages and body...
25/03/2026

We’re running free canoe sessions again as part of the Bundaberg Councils Be Active Be Alive program. All ages and body types welcome, if you can sit in a canoe and paddle you’ll have a good time.

27/02/2026

We spent this week doing Swift water 🌊 rescue training on the beautiful Nymboida river. While we were there, we decided to do a quick overnight trip down part of the river. We managed to wrap a canoe around a rock but we’re able to pull it off with a couple of Z drags and pop it back into shape to continue our journey. Water levels are very low so the river is a bit bony making some of the rapids a bit like a pinball game. But still good fun and great training. Thanks Group 314 for superior training and good company.

06/02/2026

At Walkabout we’re committed to youth development, building leadership and skills. Here’s our superstar Paige instructing a group of army officers-in-training giving a safety brief and helping them kit up their harnesses and safety negotiate a cliff using a safety line as a traverse. Outdoor skills is not just about camping, it’s building competence and leadership.

31/01/2026

Canyons in the Blue Mountains

31/01/2026

Walkabout training are canyoning in the Blue Mountains with Group 314. It’s a crazy mix of abseiling, rock climbing, swimming and hypothermia!

05/01/2026

We had a lovely day at Walkabout training today. Took a young client out to Utopia Falls. This is a beautiful spot not too far from Bundaberg with a series of natural pools linked by small cascades. Although the water levels were low, we still had a great time swimming, jumping off cliffs, and enjoying a picnic barbecue with hamburgers cooked on a small cooker under a tree. It was great to see our young client building confidence as he progressed from timidly jumping off low rocks close to the waters edge to quickly building in confidence and jumping off more challenging cliffs into the water. The biggest problem was dragging him and the other young people we had brought along away! I think we only accomplished this by the promise of a McDonald’s softserve ice cream on the way home!

On the way home we observed some Bunya Nut trees growing wild beside the road. I had previously introduced these trees and their nuts to our young client and explained their importance in indigenous culture with the Bunya nut festival being a gathering place for indigenous tribes all over south-east Queensland and northern New South Wales. Ever since he has developed a enthusiastic interest in these trees and when I suggested that these trees produce nuts in summer every two or three years and the signs are that this year will be one of those years where there is a bumper crop he excitedly suggested we pull over for a bit of a forage.

At Walkabout training we are often doing impromptu activities and this was one which yielded two good size nuts within five minutes of searching. Bunya nuts are huge, twice a size of a football and they can weigh as much as a car battery. Each one yields dozens and dozens of nuts the length of your thumb which can be boiled, roasted or ground into flour.

After dropping our young client off I was inspired to go looking for more Bunya nuts as I have a plan to use them for a cultural experience in a leadership camp I am organising later in the year. I found a few more under some trees not too far from my house, but on the way back drove past a private residence who had a row of trees on the edge of their property. I was excited to see dozens of large green nuts scattered in this person‘s yard and decided to approach the front door to see if they would be willing to share some. I hoped I wasn’t about to meet Bundaberg‘s resident axe murderer! To my surprise and delight I met a lovely lady who was a former primary school teacher and when I explained that I wanted to use the nuts in some of my youth programs she insisted on going to her shed to retrieve some gloves and a wheelbarrow and help me gather a substantial harvest of nuts. It’s been a good day to have a good day!

27/12/2025

At Walkabout Training we have the privilege of working in the great outdoors , on country that inspires and challenges us. This year we’ve encountered so many different environments with weather ranging from sublime to unpredictable. But wherever we go we love our office space. Here’s a quick overview of our year and the places we’ve been. See if you recognise any of them.

13/12/2025

A little snapshot of our latest adventure. Despite not one but two flat trailer tyres(!) and other setbacks we were able to enjoy ourselves as a group of Certificate 2 and 3 students, paddling a few sections of the Mary River and enjoying some moving water sections.

12/12/2025

Walkabout training back from a three day training camp with both Cert 2 and Cert 3 students. Cert three students covered some moving water upskilling while two students concentrated on flatwater canoe paddling. A good time had by all on the Mary River.

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