We're offSept 25 Sydney (Beahces)Sept 26 Sydney (walking tour)Sept 27 Flight to Brisbane28Sept SPACESHIPSept 29th KillarneySept 30th Killarney to Glen Innes1Oct Glenn Inns to Warren2Oct Warren to White Cliffs3Oct White Cliffs to Broken Hill4Oct Broken Hill to Flinders Rangers5Oct – Flinders RangersOct 6 – Flinders to Port Augusta7 Oct - Port Augusta to Coober Pedy7Oct - What have we learnt so far…7Oct - Next up8 Oct – Coober Pedy to Mt Ebenezer9 Oct Mt Ebenezer to Yulara10 Oct Ayers Rock to Alice Springs11 Oct Alice Springs to Tennant Creek.12 Oct Tennant Creek to CloncurryOct 13 Cloncurry to Karumba14 Oct Karumba to Ravenshoe15 Oct Ravenshoe to Yungaburra16 Oct Yungaburra to Cairns (Palm Cove)17 Oct Palm Cove to Port Douglas18 Oct Port Douglas to Newell Beach19 Oct Newell Beach to CairnsOct 20 Cairns to Bingal Bay (Mission Beach)Oct 21 Bingal Bay (Mission Beach)Oct 22 Bingal Bay (Mission Beach)Oct 23 Bingal Bay - InghamOct 24 Ingham - Home HillOct 25 Home Hill to ProserpineOct 26 Proserpine to RockhamptonOct 27 Rockhampton to 1770Oct 28 1770Oct 29 1770 to Bundaburg (Burnett Heads)Oct 30 Burnett Heads – Tin Can BayOct 31 TinCan Bay to Rainbow beachNov 1 Rainbow beach to CaloundraNov 2 Caloundra to Main armNov 3 Main arm to Byron BayNov 4 Byron Bay to WooliNov 5 WooliNov 6 Wolli to BerrimaBerrima to Eltham (Melbourne)Nov 8 - 22 Eltham (Melbourne)nov 23 Eltham to Ballaratnov 24 Ballarat to Mt GambierNov 25 Mt Gambier to PortlandNov 26 Portland to Port CampbellNov 27 Port Campbell to LorneNov 28 Lorne to JanJucNov 29 Jan Juc to CoolendinaDec 3 Coolendina to Ryenov 30 to Dec 2 Surf Coast
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Wilpena, Australia
Wasting no time, we headed straight to the park eager to take on St-Mary’s Peak, the highest point of Wilpena Pound. Wilpena Pound is basically a gigantic bowl surrounded by mountains. There is certainly something geologically significant about it; I’ll leave curious minds to Google away!
The hike to the peak is 7.2km each way. Naturally the path is uphill but the last 3km are straight up! Now, of the countless people to have conquered this peak in the past and of the swarms of people making the trek on this Australian Labour Day, wouldn’t you know Marc-André and I got lost… Don’t ask how, but we somehow ended up on the expert trail up to the peak.
Smart people have said that if something doesn’t feel right, it probably isn’t… Within striking distance of the peak these words rang all too true. We couldn’t help but agree that our path was indeed the one less traveled and with good reason, lets just say you slip you die! (Mom calm down! I am alive and typing. ) Sadly, we abandoned our quest.
I couldn’t shake the feeling of defeat until I read that this particular peak holds symbolic significance to the aboriginal people and they dislike when ill-equipped tourists hike up as they feel responsible for any injury or god forbid death that may occur.
I find solace in the thought that the location where we stood will one day be the peak… even if it is in another 10 million years.
The rest of the day was for rest and relaxation and we were in bed well before the sun and any of the kids in the park. Zzzzz
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