Whichever you choose, make sure to wear hiking boots and leech socks -- the forest floor is muddy and thick with small, innocuous leeches.

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For those who want to wear in the hiking boots, the 39 km Tabletop Track circuit takes three to five days to complete, making it ideal for long weekend jaunts from Darwin.

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Then she was walking along Teallback Road like a sportwalker, like some lady who walked every night to get slim, except that she was nowhere near slim, she knew that, and she also knew that when sportwalking you did not wear jeans and unlaced hiking boots.

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