Trek Yuin Country (Cultural immersion tour)

Your afternoon will be spent with Yuin Elder, Uncle Dean Kelly, participating in a hands-on learning experience that focuses on Aboriginal tools and resources, sharing information about Aboriginal cultures, history, the environment, animals, plants, shelter, tools, weapons and sustainability.

In the evening, we’ll come together for our first team dinner and get to know each other ahead of our first day of trekking.

Accommodation:  Motel Molly

Meals: D

After breakfast, we’ll engage with an inspiring woman for a very open and honest discussion about Aboriginal perspectives of invasion, frontier wars, loss of land, reserves and missions and the stolen generations.

This conversation will take place over a hands-on traditional weaving class in which we’ll create bracelets, bookmarks, necklaces or rope using raffia, feathers and beads. 

After lunch you’ll have time to relax before we venture out to Florence Head walking trail. This easy walk features a variety of vegetation types, including mallee gum trees, heath plants and sedges. Keep your eyes out along the way for local kangaroos, wallabies and an array of bird life, such as honeyeaters, wrens and colourful parrots. 

Once we arrive at Florence Head lookout, we’ll have an early dinner and cook up while taking in the incredible views of Pigeon House Mountain. 

Accommodation: Motel Molly

Meals: B,D

Trekking distance: 6.3km (easy)

This is one of the best walks in Morton National Park and the South Coast. We’ll hike through forest, heathland and age-old sandstone before reaching a series of ladders that lead to the summit and the amazing views of the surrounding national park and pristine coastline.

With ample time to take in the captivating sight of cliffs and gorges within the Budawang wilderness, all carved by the Clyde River, we might even be able to see as far as Jervis Bay and Bermagui.

After a well-earned morning tea at the summit, we’ll make our way back and transfer to our accommodation where the tour ends.

Meals: B

Trekking distance: 5km, 3 hours (moderate, very steep)