Category Archives: Climbing day trips

Despite having had a week off work David hadn’t managed a trip out to explore his new outdoor playground.  It seems his desire to get out is near equal to mine, and his fingers were itching to touch rock by the time Saturday arrived.  We’d planned a trip out with, in my mind, one focus. Continue reading “Watch your step”

With another blustery morning, and a rough ocean the Peppy Plungers were not gathering for their dip today.  Despite that Lisa was still leaving early, for swimming lessons.  Or should I say lessons to improve her swimming style.  While she has a never ending urge to keep learning and doing something different, the lessons areContinue reading “Knocked for six”

It’s often not the accomplishment of the climbs for me, but the journey.  That includes the approach or walk into the crag, and then back out.  Going up the routes of choice is almost a bonus.  And for really big crags, which we lack locally, the descent is also great fun.  Howsie and I plannedContinue reading “The rambling buoy”

I won’t lie and I steered the ship to my advantage today.  This resulted in a fourth trip, on the trot, out to rock starting with a walk towards Wilyabrup.  I would have headed out solo if no one else was keen, but David was and was also happy to risk the weather.  Having climbedContinue reading “Showing their true colours”

In thinking of themes for this post, The Gambler keeps going through my head for this post.  I felt the lyrics from the songs chorus were apt for various moments during Friday mornings foray to our rocky coastal playground.  There were times we needed to know when to hold ’em, fold ’em, walk away, andContinue reading “Blink and you miss it”

It has been an unusually long spell since I’ve been on the sharp end of a rope.  Being just shy of a month.  While winter took a while to getting going, it is fully here and feeling like a winter of the old days.  That is no bad thing for the environment.  It does howeverContinue reading “Winter surprises”

You may recall Howsie was considering not climbing on Friday this week.  However, once the boys had left for school he found himself home alone, with Nadia out until mid-morning.  Indicating to me that he may crack on with a bit of gardening, I planted a seed of my own.  Suggesting we could spend anContinue reading “Taking a rain check”

Despite how I ended my post yesterday, Howsie and I kept messaging each other with ideas of how we may be able to retrieve our gear.  Unfortunately, we didn’t know anyone close enough to ask them to pop out.  There were however two other possibilities.  Howsie said he may head down with the family onContinue reading “Going shopping”

There’s no avoiding it, some weeks life just gets hectic.  This was one of those for Howsie.  Planting season in the natural resource management sector is very much at the mercy of the weather.  As a result of the way the seasons have been this year, it has been hard to prepare sites and nowContinue reading “Weighing up the cost”