Hike Like A Flamingo 🦩 - MELINDA CHARLESWORTH

“This book is about the power of friendships that take you unawares and teach you the lessons you’re never too old to learn.”
— Melinda Charlesworth, Hiker and Flock Leader

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How I Learned To Hike My Own Hike

When Melinda celebrated turning fifty, she set what seemed like an achievable goal – hike 50 hikes in a year. At least, she thought, I’ll get fit! She did hike 50 hikes that year but that wasn’t her greatest triumph. Her most precious birthday gift was discovering how to hike her own hike.

Hiking your own hike is a midlife superpower. Melinda found it on the trail. You can, too!

Lace up your boots and come along with The Flamingo Flock to hike the bush on the lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung in central Victoria, tackle the exquisite Great Ocean Walk and triumphantly walk 500 miles across Spain on the Camino Francés.

Hike Like A Flamingo – The Photo Albums

flamingo hike track walk — **Goldfields Track 2023**

flamingo hike GOW — **Goldfields Track 2023**

Hike Like A Flamingo – The Songs 🎶

When you’re in the middle of a hike and you’re hot and sweaty and tired and worried you’re not going to make it up the hill, there’s a good chance it’s a nursery rhyme that comes to mind. Sometimes it was The Grand Ole’ Duke Of York who got us up those hills. Then, when energy returned, we stepped it to Aretha Franklin! Lace up your boots, pop your earbuds in so you don’t force these choices onto anyone else without their permission, and step out to the FlaminGOW playlist on Spotify!

The First 50 Hikes 🥾

Hike #	Trail Name	Distance (km)	Hike #	Trail Name	Distance (km)
1	OKeefe Rail Trail	12	26	One Tree Hill Loop	20
2	One Tree Hill	9.3	27	Pilcher Track Lyell State Forest	10
3	Maldon-‘Maine	17.51	28	Bgo Bushland Trail	7
4	Big Hill	9.29	29	OKeefe Rail Trail	10
5	Garfields Mill Castlemaine	18.28	30	OKeefe Rail Trail	12
6	Mandurang South	17.27	31	Whroo	14.5
7	Betka Beach	10	32	Bgo Bushland Trail	12
8	Axedale to Heathcote	28	33	Heathcote Graytown National Park	10.67
9	Coastrek!	30	34	Yarrawonga Trail	8.94
10	Lerderderg	10	35	Rail trail -Strathdale	10.6
11	Blackwood	10	36	Fryers Ridge Circuit	13.69
12	One Tree Hill	8.18	37	Berripmo	12
13	Bgo Bushland Trail	7.29	38	Berripmo	10
14	Lanjanuc	8	39	Mt Coree	5.77
15	Point Leo beach	6	40	Legoland Namadgi	10.61
16	Sandhurst Res to Bendigo	12	41	Long Gully Trail	13
17	Bendigo Bushland Trail loop Tackaberry Dve	10	42	Barwon Heads	7
18	Mt Ida Range Circuit	15	43	Wildflower Drive	9.6
19	Mt Tarrengower	8	44	No7 & Crusoe Res loop	9.85
20	Kooyoora (Melville Caves)	7.5	45	Tallarook	2
21	Eaglehawk	10	46	Tallarook	26
22	Leanganook	5	47	Mount Alexander	6.83
23	Whroo	12	48	Forest Creek	13.14
24	Urban Bendigo	15	49	Belzlbub Track	5.14
25	Strathfieldsaye	12	50	Great Ocean Walk!	10