It’s the one day of the year that I really don’t want to be at work, and would much rather get out into nature and enjoy life. Luckily falling on a Friday I was able to encourage Howsie to join me on a little excursion to head to unfamiliar territory, just to make the dayContinue reading “Looking forward”
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Quality over quantity
Our 2006 Roads and Tracks Road Map of Western Australia, prepared by a potentially dodgy publisher on the basis that the contact for them was a ‘bigpond’ email address was once again misleading. The road names had potentially changed or swapped in places, and many of the dirt roads were shown as sealed and viceContinue reading “Quality over quantity”
A baker’s dozen
Several years back I heard of a fabled location called Orchid Valley, a place with a name that simply screamed out to be visited. Several of my work colleagues knew about it, as we have water resource monitoring stations located in the vicinity. They just happen to have been lucky enough to maintain the stationsContinue reading “A baker’s dozen”
A send-off to remember
Rongy is once more heading off travelling, so today we popped down to Wilyabrup for a farewell climb. Sarah is joining him this time, so she too came along for a climb, but was also hoping to get a bit of herping in. “Herpet” is a Greek word that means creeping, and it could beContinue reading “A send-off to remember”
A cluster of spiders
October is a bit of a hot month for celebrations for us, with three major milestones in Lisa and my life all making an appearance, and if I sneak the 1 Nov into that period it becomes four. Lisa’s birthday is first up, and luckily for her it always falls in the spring school holidaysContinue reading “A cluster of spiders”
Uniquely beautiful
The Capel Nature Reserve was calling me for a little nature boost. And I went there despite looming clouds that threatened a sprinkling of rain, which did eventuated but didn’t dampen my spirits. I parked in a different location this time and wandered off into the bush at some random spot. Hoping that by takingContinue reading “Uniquely beautiful”
A bit too spicy
For quite a while now a couple of work colleagues and I have been trying to organise a date to get out on rock. All three of them have young families so it has been somewhat tricky but we eventually plumped for this weekend, which suited three out of the four of us. Sam hasContinue reading “A bit too spicy”
Crossing my fingers
As to be expected I have been out and about for a wander to look for orchids since our return from overseas. My first jolly in nature was not in fact climbing related, being a walk at Crooked Brook where I drove to full of anticipation of seeing a heap of orchids. You may wonderContinue reading “Crossing my fingers”
A little crustacean
The risk with long weekends is that it can get pretty busy at the crag. But being the last day before I go back to work, after a few weeks off the idea of heading out was just too tempting. And much to Howsie and my surprise we ended up with the cliffs all toContinue reading “A little crustacean”
Enjoying being out
Less than twelve hours after completing the twenty eight hour door to door trip home from the UK I was meeting Rob in the Capel, at the slightly tardy time of eight in the morning. He was a little surprised that I was keen to get out, but I find that getting straight back intoContinue reading “Enjoying being out”
