Long weekend drenching

Long weekend. Weather report said "showers for fri-sat, fine on monday". Okay. Try to miss the traffic by leaving on Sunday. Head to Kanangra-Boyd National park, out the back of the Blue Mountains.
Walk out to Cottage Boulder, or at least to coal-seam cave (Easy 9km return). Wait awhile in the cave because its raining. It appears to let up, so start heading back to the car.
I got drenched. I was wearing goretex on top, and then jeans underneath. My jeans got soaked, and then the water started creeping upwards underneath the goretex on my t-shirt. The rain was torrential. Walking across Kanangra plateau with the thunder and lighting going on directly overhead thinking very very short thoughts!

Back from the Snowies

Back from the road trip down to the Snowy mountains. Did the Blue Lake - Hedley Tarn walk, via Mount Carruthers. It was hot, and oh the march flies had a bit of a feast on me. But very beautiful and the flowers were out in bloom.

Becstarr : Burning Palms walk

Trained it out to Otford and walked for 4-5 hours: a big loop through palmy rainforest up to Burning Palms for a welcome swim and lunch, then up the mountain and back to Otford station. Made it home about 9:30, Indonesian in hand from the new place on the other side of Redfern station (recommended!). We were so tired that even the Conchords didn't seem very funny! But the walk and the quiet were totally worth it.