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 writing, 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.
25/10/2025
Edgewalkers is an ecotourism company whose mission is to reconnect people to nature, creativity and their most adventurous selves.
We love wildflowers and so we also endeavour to support the restoration and conservation of biodiversity in the UNESCO listed Fitzgerald Biosphere in WAs southwest.
We offer walking adventure in Mongolia, the Balkans, the Cape to Cape and the Fitzgerald Biosphere.
We also offer creativity retreats in WA and in 2027, Croatia…🥳
We believe walking, nature and creativity go hand in hand.
24/10/2025
The Creativity Retreat with Dr Erika Jacobson, now in its ninth year, has been different things to different people.
🌸 For some it’s much needed timeout, time for self for rest for rejuvenation in nature, nurtured by good food, daily Yoga and the company of people who really get you.
🌸 For others, it’s an opportunity to reconnect with the creative aspirations that they’ve put aside and on pause for so long.
🌸 For some, it’s an opportunity to consider their next move, their next step, the next direction.
🌸 For some it’s a perfect reset
🌸 What would it be for you?
22/10/2025
Poetry recitals at 2,400 m in the Mongolian wilderness … the beautiful Marie wrote poetry, painted watercolours of wildflowers, shared stories… she wasn’t the only one!
Nature inspired creativity… just what we wanted!!
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17/10/2025
Can you relate to any of the following statements?
🙋🏻♀️“I want to find purpose, passion and meaning outside of my career,”
🙋🏻♀️“…to walk, feel reenergised, to reconnect with me, with nature,”
🙋🏻♀️“to discover an outlet for my creativity..”
🙋🏻♀️“ to listen to that voice inside me and find a way for it to express the essence of who I am,”
🙋🏻♀️“ to have space to reflect, to just be, to not feel pressure, to unwind, let it emerge,”
🙋🏻♀️“to restore my confidence and explore my passions.”
🙋🏻♀️“I want to create.”
The Creativity Retreat with Dr Erika Jacobson is an opportunity to give your creative aspirations and dreams the attention they deserve, to examine and disrupt thinking habits that might be holding you back and to remember and celebrate just how creative you really are.
06/10/2025
10 days of hiking through the Peaks of the Balkans in 60 seconds… watch to see the views, the diverse landscapes and terrain, the places we stay and the joy of walking immersed in some of Europe’s last remaining wild places.
June 22 - July 4 are the 2026 dates, promising even more wildflowers and cooler weather - perfect for walking.
Here’s what one client said in her recent TripAdvisor review:
“This Peaks of the Balkans hike was fabulous in every way, Erika’s attention to detail whilst planning this trip has created an incredible experience which exceeded my hopes and expectations. The terrain you cover is varied and spectacular. The patience and care shown to all participants was greatly appreciated. The number of hikers is kept small intentially which enables a very personalised adventure. If you are contemplating this experience, I would definitely recommend you go ahead you will be grateful you did, I know I am. The europhic feelings I receive from spending time in nature in this way is a beautiful gift that I appreciate immensely.”
🙏🏼🥰
👆🏽👆🏽 check out the link in profile for a 2026 itinerary, more exciting pics and more reasons why this is one extraordinary hiking adventure.
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.
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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.
