Category Archives: Climbing day trips

This morning Justin and I wandered down to the Bookshelf where the plan was for him to have a crack at trad.  It was a crisp clear morning and the moon was still bright in sky as we walked along the rocky shoreline: Being his first use of trad I set him to work onContinue reading “Hook, line and sinker!”

It had been a little while since we have had an outdoor social gathering, so seeing it was Easter the word was put out that for those interested and/or not working we decided to head to Welly Dam.  It has to be put down as one of the latest starts on record.  Steve was firstContinue reading “Happy Easter”

This morning 4:20 felt way too early to be getting up.  However, within ten minutes I was in the car heading out at 5:45 rolled into the carpark.  It was still dark a sure sign of summer being over and autumn being here.  Denis and Justin were already there, so without further ado we shoulderedContinue reading “A hive of activity”

This morning Denis and I headed down to Willies to take Justin out.   He’s over from California making wine for a few months, and admitted to being a bit rusty and only having climbed sports before.  We got the base of the crag and I misheard Denis, as I thought he was keen to leadContinue reading “Life’s good”

Driving out this morning at 4:20 I got a text from Howsie to say he had just woken up and will be late for our 4:30 meet.  There was no point in going back home and disturbing the household.  So I drove to Capel, parked up and closed my eyes for 20 min.  Today weContinue reading “The Fall Guy”

This morning Mikie and I headed out to finish off his 10km challenge, and he picked a great spot to do that.  It felt like there was landward breeze as we walked down to the crag but we couldn’t have asked for better conditions.   This place being so close the ocean and also being quiteContinue reading “New shoes”

As Dan and Joanne were over from Melbourne I had a good reason to head out and they were keen for Willyabrup, which is where we went yesterday.  We had agreed to meet at 6:30.  However, seeing I’m awake at 5 most days and creep round the house like a mouse so as not toContinue reading “A winter’s day”

We decided to have a Christmas Eve get together at Welly Dam, and the hard core crew turned up at 6 for a not so early start.  My guess being that it was a later start so we could make sure we were not too tired on the big day to see what Santa mayContinue reading “Merry Christmas!”

I have not had a real first light start for a long time, but this morning I meet Mikey at 3:30 and as the day was waking up we were starting the first route of the day.  Today we were going to the Organ Pipes at Willyabrup with the aim of bagging as much meterageContinue reading “Sprint Finish”

Last weekend I went down to the beach on Saturday morning hoping for a milk pond, with no stingers.  It wasn’t quite that flat but the stingers were absent, which was good.  Lisa came down with the poodles, a cup of coffee and beach chair to soak up some rays while I braved the waterContinue reading “Colourful ocean adventures”