Category Archives: Climbing day trips

The cooling night time temperatures are bring on the morning dew, and driving out of Peppermint Grove Beach the hundreds of orb spider webs on the fence lines on the roadside become so much more visible.  It was a later start than normal today, so with sufficient light I stopped to check out and takeContinue reading “Taking the plunge”

It feels like it has been a long time since I have been to the main cliffs at Wilyabrup, and looking back it has been almost three months.  Today for the first visit in such a long time Howsie and I were on a mission.  He has not been feeling all that great and IContinue reading “The photo shoot”

Another early 4am start, which is just under two hours before first light.  But you would never believe it looking at this image taken a short fifteen minutes into the journey.  For these starts, I’ll endeavour to get an early night so I’m not too tired in the morning.  Last night however my sleep wasContinue reading “Cloud watching”

I am a great fan of The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, so much so I have read the books and watched the films multiple times.  And all I could think of, as I watched my wedding ring disappear between the boulder, was the sound of metal bouncing off rock when Gollum dropped theContinue reading “My precious”

When I wrote up my thoughts about Alan, way back as COVID was taking hold, I called him the tagalong (https://sandbagged.blog/2020/04/21/alan-the-tagalong/).  His trips outdoors would be few and far between, and then it was more about catching up and a bit of fun.  This was in part due to his many other competing outdoor pursuits.Continue reading “Blame the grease”

I feel like I might have jinxed my early morning encounters by mentioning them, in more detail that I would normally, in my last post.  Today I sadly came across a lifeless young roo and, just a few hundred meter along, brush-tailed phascogale.  Fatalities from the night.  While at times the animals do just comeContinue reading “A jolly good morning”

I see a variety of animals crossing, resting or at times sleeping on the road, as I drive out for a climb in the wee hours.  Kangaroos go without saying, but I also at times see emus, boobook owls, tawny frogmouths, phascogales.  Then there are the non-native rabbits, foxes, cats and on the odd occasionContinue reading “The banter”

We were in for another warm day, and while we weren’t the first at the carpark we were the first at the crag.  The occupants of the two cars already parked up were still in slumber land as we walked in.  It’s been an abnormally hot summer, a record breaking one with more individual daysContinue reading “Keeping cool”

Being the last week of my go slow January, and due to having a public holiday in the middle of the week, I took Thursday and Friday off to really chill out.  It’s going to be a bit of a rude awakening next week, when it is back to the five days week.  But IContinue reading “A long time coming”