Producer by trade, Caro started lotsafreshair.com to inspire people to get outdoors and remove barriers to bushwalking.
I used to think that a compass was a strange, mystical tool; a sort of esoteric wand that only select wizards had the ancient wisdom to use. It didn’t help that I grew up in a culture that told me map and compass navigation was a skill that belonged to ‘boy’ scouts; as though the techniques were somehow gendered and bestowed to only 50% of us.
As a teacher of navigation and author of
How to Navigate – the art of traditional map and compass navigation in an Australian context, I can assure you it’s not alchemy, rocket science or even brain
