Training Log Archive: jennycas

Headed up the road to the Tree-in-the-Rock carpark (25 min), admired the Red-Eared Firetail finches darting about, and back down to our accommodation (19 min) where the Red-Winged blue wrens were flitting around the back door. Lovely cool morning with after-rain smells.

We then drove north through the Stirling Ranges (I intend hiking the peaks here next Easter midweek) and east towards Esperance, detouring south through the Fitzgerald River National Park where I really appreciated the vastness of the Barrens (not unlike Scotland except that it wasn't raining) and G did not appreciate 40km of corrugations on an unsealed road. But at least the bridge across the mouth of the Culham Inlet lagoon near Hopetoun is no longer washed away*. That must have been one hell of a storm last year in February!

*actually, it's still washed away; you can definitely see where the bridge used to be, and where what's left of it still sits beside the new temporary causeway...

C • Stirlings 4

Made it to Esperance before the sun went down, which it did as the clock struck 5:15 and I was jogging along the foreshore in an attempt to alleviate the stiffness from sitting all day in the car (although we did stop for little short walks and to photograph the vegetation, at numerous points of interest).