We are an international ecotourism company offering hiking adventures and specialised creativity retreats. Charissa Wright recently joined the Edgewalkers Team.
Reconnecting you to nature, creativity & your most adventurous self! 🌸
https://edgewalkers.com.au/mongolia-walking-adventure THE TEAM
Edgewalkers was founded by Dr Erika Jacobson, a theatre practitioner, artist and entrepreneur with a specialisation in creativity and transformative learning who loves wri
ting, walking and wildflowers. Kirra Diconza, is an environmental scientist, yoga instructor, and student of Chinese medicine who loves to surf and create culinary magic. Charissa is an artist, designer and entrepreneur with background in science and agriculture. She loves wildflowers, birds and being outdoors. Behinds the scenes Francis Cubillo is our office administrator and email marketing expert, with superhuman organisational skills. WHERE WE LIKE TO BE
From August to November most of our events take place in Western Australia's florally biodiverse southwest, including the Cape to Cape track in the Margaret River Region, the Fitzgerald Biosphere and the Stirling Range National Park. We also offer a walking adventures through the ancient rugged landscape of the Murchison Gorge in the Kalbarri National Park in WA's midwest. In June and July we head to the Tavan Bogd National Park and hike with small groups through the Altai Mountains in the in northwest Mongolia and to the Prokletije National Park to hike the Peaks of the Balkans through Montenegro, Albania and Kosovo. Our international Creativity Retreat will be held on the magical island of Korcula, Croatia. We offer set events throughout the year but mostly organise bespoke adventures for individuals, organisations and government departments. Our mission is to bring people closer to nature, creativity and their most adventurous selves.
27/07/2025
Charli Smith was one of our intrepid adventurers in out racent trip to the Altai Mountains in tje Tavan Bogd National Park in northwest Mongolia.
She created this video capturing in vivid detail every day of our adventure.
Awesome work Charli!
hello! I have made this video to share my epic trip to Mongolia with family and friends :)If you haven't already heard about it from me, you can read more he...
22/07/2025
Were we the only people walking through the Tavan Bogd National Park? It sure felt like it!! Remote as remote gets in the Altai Mountains! Dr Erika Jacobson
18/07/2025
Images from the extraordinary adventure we’ve had walking together through the Tavan Bogd National Park in northwest Mongolia!
Deep in the Altai mountains we spent 9 days making our way to the 5 Sacred Peaks and the Potanin Glacier.
It was magic thanks to the generous, open and wonderful humans on the trip.
Thanks so much everyone!
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Join us at FORM Gallery (FORM Gallery & Cafe) for our weekend-long celebration of WHERE WE COME FROM: The Artists of Ngarluma and Yindjibarndi Country.
This Saturday, hear participating artists, who will travel from the Pilbara, in conversation with Emillia Galatis Projects. Artists will share an intimate insight into their work and the ways in which strong culture and their connection to Country inspires and informs their creative practice.
Arrive early and grab a coffee at FORM Cafe!
The Roebourne Art Development Program is supported by Woodside North West. FORM Gallery is supported by Wesfarmers Arts, and FORM is supported by the Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries Arts Organisation Investment Program.
📸 Melissa Sandy (Yinjaa-Barni Art) speaking at the "Where We Come From" Exhibition Preview & Tour, FORM Gallery, 2025.
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FORM | FORM Gallery & Cafe
17/06/2025
Put your load down!
Take a 3-day breather!
Hang out with a posse of women who get you!
And enjoy the magic and reset of daily walks, yoga and immersing yourself in the creative atmosphere of the Margaret river Open Studios during the spectacular wildflower season!
We’ll walk, do yoga and visit local artists’ studios every day!
So many reasons to sign yourself and a mate on the last two spots for this reenergising and restorative walking yoga mini-retreat.
24/01/2025
The Friends of the Fitzgerald River National Park ARE HIRING!
We're looking for a botanist / ecologist who is passionate about biodiversity and wants to make a difference to the conservation and protection of the Fitzgerald River National Park.
This is a part-time position (FTE 0.75) based in the Fitzgerald Biosphere starting March 2025.
Please see the full job description and criteria on the link below and feel free to share this post! 🙏🏽🌼 https://www.fitzgeraldfriends.org.au/work-with-us
WE'RE HIRING!
We're looking for a botanist / ecologist who is passionate about biodiversity and wants to make a difference to the conservation and protection of the Fitzgerald River National Park.
This is a part-time position (FTE 0.75) based in the Fitzgerald Biosphere starting March 2025.
Please see the full job description and criteria on the link below and feel free to share this post! 🙏🏽🌼
Fitzgerald Biosphere The South West Edge State Natural Resource Management Program WA Explore Parks WA Fitzgerald Biosphere Coast Ravensthorpe Wildflower Show
14/01/2025
Mongolia - Tavan Bogd National Park Day 4 continued!
11/01/2025
Mongolia Tavan Bogd NP - Day 4.
The are few opportunities to spend this much time immersed in the natural and unspoilt landscapes of the northwest of Mongolia.
Day 4 is the longest day of the 9-day walk, about 23 km. It’s also diverse, interesting, stunning, full of wildflowers.
Lots of stream crossings.
We’re walking in the Altai Mountains, in the Tavan Bogd National Park.
Mongolia Trekking Dr Erika Jacobson Osprey Packs Australia
08/01/2025
When you find another awesome video that you made for YouTube but forgot to share it everywhere else!!
Enjoy this from our 2023 Mongolia Walking Adventure! 😍🥾
Altai Tavan Bogd National Park - Алтай Таван Богд Уул
Mongolia Walking Adventure - Tavan Bogd National Park
30/08/2024
Secret 🤫 (not really) wildflower spot in Varley, about 100 km north of Ravensthorpe.Discovered by accident when looking for a spacious pleasant place to have lunch.There are wildflowers here, including many orchids. If you’re heading to Ravensthorpe for the Ravensthorpe Wildflower Show over the next couple of weeks (from 9 Sept) you might want to stop here to see sugar orchids (Ericksonella saccharata), some of the blue sun orchids Thelamytra sp, spider orchids Caladenia sp), Grevillea sp (inc. G. excelsior and ) , Stylidium sp (inc. Boomerang Trigger Plant - Stylidium breviscapum), … and lots of other colourful and unique wildflowers that I can’t look up right now because I’m driving back to Fremantle. Dirt road off Hyden-Lake King Rd.(Winchcombe Rd) On right (southbound)On left (northbound)Great place to let your pooch out for a walk…or have a cup of tea.
28/08/2024
Lechenaultia formosa in glowing devilish ember red and husky angelic mottled pink.
Plus a couple of others. 😍🌸
Dr Erika Jacobson
Ravensthorpe Wildflower Show and Herbarium
Western Australian Visitor CentreFitzgerald Biosphere
Friends of the Fitzgerald River National Park
27/08/2024
Photo Competition!
Please share far and wide. 🙏🏼🌸
Fitzgerald Biosphere
🎉📸📸⏰Good news! We’ve extended the deadline for the 2024 Living in the Transition Zone Photography Competition and awards!🎉📸📸⏰
Entries will now close on Midnight 5th September, giving you extra time to decide on your best bird, Wellstead Estuary and Fitzgerald Biosphere photos.
This competition is about contributing to an exhibition that celebrates an amazing region and its community - through your eyes. Which means, we need your contributions. We want YOU, to be apart of it!
With $3000 worth of amazing prizes on offer thanks to our sponsors and supporters.
Exhibition and awards night, September 27th, Bremer CRC. Link on that to come soon 😉
We begin the countdown today! Tag your photographer friends below!
Hopetoun Community Resource Centre
Ravensthorpe Community Resource Centre
Jerramungup Community Resource Centre
Bremer Bay Community Resource & Visitors Centre INC
Ravensthorpe Wildflower Show and Herbarium
Ravensthorpe Agricultural Initiative Network (R.A.I.N)
FBG - Fitzgerald Biosphere Group
Regional Development Australia Great Southern WA
Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council
Fitzgerald Biosphere Coast
Friends of the Fitzgerald River National Park
Edgewalkers
Georgina Steytler Photography
Jarvis Smallman Photography
Dieback Working Group
South Coast Natural Resource Management
Great Southern Development Commission
Great Southern Treasures
Albany Bird Group
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EDGEWALKERS - walking you closer to nature & your most creative self
It was during a long coastal hike, along the famous Cape to Cape track, immersed in scented Boronias and Honey Myrtle, surrounded by swishing Peppermint Eucalyptuses and low lying prickly Acacias (names I did not know then) that I came to realise two things.
First, I realised that in spite of loving being out in nature I knew very little about the natural world that surrounded me. When I looked at trees I saw, well, trees; when I looked at flowers, I saw colours, red ones, purple ones, yellow ones.
I wondered if other people also felt the same. Whether they were also yearning for a more profound connection and understanding of the natural world, yearning to move like Edgewalkers, effectively across the edge between the structured and the untamed, between the sophisticated and the primal.
Second, I realised that walking, but especially in nature, was, and is, an integral part of my creative process…that I have been doing it for a long time.
I realised that I hiked the mountains around Almaty, Kazakhstan trying to find a way to finish the first draft of my first novel in 1999, and that I regularly traversed King’s Park, Perth, while solving production issues with my first play Trollop(e) in 2002. I understood that I had walked my way out of every single challenge in all the theatre-based projects I created with Act Out www.actout.com.au from 2007 – 2014 and that I am still bushwalking now as a way to solve problems, to let my mind expand and my imagination soar.
I understood, that day on the Cape to Cape with the Southern Native Roses dangling red above the limestone outcrops of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge, with Western Spinebills fluttering among the Melaleuca and the Cockies’ Tongues, that walking is how I negotiate the edge between the world of what is and the world of what is yet to be; between the world of the created and what is yet to be created. I wondered whether others also felt a desire to move more freely between these two realms.
By naming my new business adventure Edgewalkers, I am conjuring the possibility of playing a role in bringing people closer to the edges they yearn to walk boldly along; closer to nature, closer to their natural creative and expressive selves; I am conjuring the possibility of all of us having intimate knowledge and competence of all the worlds we inhabit and create.
OUR RETREATS
We are educators, nature lovers, artists & walking enthusiasts who love sharing our knowledge & passion for nature & a deeply creative life. Our retreats are designed to give you focused and uninterrupted opportunities to immerse yourself in stimulating surroundings and discover/rediscover your creative aspirations...and ways to reconnect with them.
Through aesthetic and embodied activities & techniques you will explore your creative aspirations, your desires and hopes and generate ways to create a trajectory to a more creative & self-expressive life.
During the retreats the creative process is harnessed by guided walks immersed in nature through some of the most pristine and biodiverse environments in the world, including sections of the Cape to Cape track & Boranup forest in southwest Western Australia & in the Altai mountains of northwest Mongolia. In addition, special workshops with contributing local artists during each retreat will enhance your creativity experience.
OUR WALKS
When you walk with us you are not just walking with a tour guide, you are walking with a philosopher, an artist, a writer, an environmentalist who offer a unique perspective and sensitivity to the experience.
