orienteering (No Elephants) 37:40 [3]
shoes: Asics Kayano 23
Since my body clock is still on Adelaide time I woke up early enough to do the 5.5km loop walk in the Porongorups, which I last did in 2006 nationals week, and got some great views before it rained again. Then we headed across to Denmark, where I had set myself a - rather long as it turned out - sprint course on a Juffymap (Paul, I owe you a beer) which I'd been told contained "two hospitals and a school" but actually there was lots more stuff and it was really interesting. Well mapped, too, although I would quibble a wall which was marked as passable...maybe only for a Dowling? Anyway, the sun was shining both when I started and when I finished but I got sprinkled twice in between. It poured on us when we reached Albany so we sought refuge in retail therapy and got back to the Porongorups at nearly 5pm, with the plan of doing the Castle Rock walk which turned out to be a little longer than our dodgy tourist map showed, but there was still time for G to climb up the ladder to the Skywalk and we finished before the end of civil twilight (which I have just realised will be even earlier in Esperance).
