wodi wodi hike journal

table of contents motive, preparation, and driving starting point moving through the rainforest depending on the trees rising difficulty and nearly slipping fog, mist, dripping water rosella watching at bald hill lookout motive, preparation, and drivingOn the first day of August, 2026, I set out to Dharawal country with a need to feel through nature as deeply as I could and try to regain a sense of self again. I would attempt to walk through the Wodi Wodi track, named after the custodians who lived across this coastline before they were permanently displaced by colonial settlers. They would have spoken their own Wodiwodi dialect of the Dharawal language and moved across this place and waters for tens of thousands of years. This would be an out and back 6km track. It starts at Stanwell Park railway station. I hadn't properly hiked a track solo for many months now. I was partly nervous as this was a trickier hike with footwork and steep descents. I trusted in myself to make the right…