Something to contemplate

Don't dream of where you see yourself in 10 or 20 years, start your journey today so you'll have a story to tell when you get there.....

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Northcliffe - Pemberton - Donnolly River and Balingup

The view outside the motel all the parrots come for feeding in the afternoon, the pub meal down there at northcliffe was lovely colm had a mixed grill and I had lamb chops with 8 different vegetables, let me tell you its all about food on the track! Also something we have noticed in the forest is that when there are kookaburra's around they are the last bird call of the evening and the first one in the morning

Schafer dam colm went for a swim brrhhh

schafer hut

We stayed at the kilns that night old tobacco kilns that have been turned into accommodation, comfy bed and nice meal what more could you ask for? and bonus we got 6 free range eggs and nectarines and plums from the farm

On the road from the kilns


On a bridge


I do cook despite what colm says later that evening I fell over in grand style on the make shift seats near the fire!

Warren campsite

Look at the people you bump into in Pemberton!

Twins but who is Danny and who is Arnie? Trust them to be wearing the same shirt!


On the forest track from Pemberton

what no shirt? A rat ate into colms rucksack at this camp so he has fine memories.... also at night we saw two quendas coming down to the pool for  a drink

Two different trees growing together

Walking from beedelup to beavis campsite

We met another walker Guy from exmouth who said he now had çalves of steel'after walking the hills where we are now so just to prove that mine aren't exactly steel yet I fell over and caught on some twigs....but all better now

Are we there yet? also I have a confession to make I am now part of the sad bastards book club yes I have actually read a mills and boon book now when our reading material ran out. I told colm how good they were and how he would have to lift his game but he said Raye that is why they are called fiction!

Our morning tea breaks, coffee and a muesli bar to see us through! Better than the night meals cream of chicken soup tastes insipid according to colm I do not think that any masterchef contestant has any concerns with us!

One tree bridge

The beautiful forests

Boarding house campsite the hills to get to this campsite were tough

What a fine specimen of a man what can I say

Forest starting again after a controlled burn

Donnolly River village and the chinese laundry and the emus here are very friendly colleen you would love it not!

Making sure I hang the wasking out correctly

The forests again after the controlled burn so green and coming to life again

Old Paws take two


Gregory brook campsite

Blackwood River, like a mirror

Okay to get to this campsite about a 1.5klm out the notes read that now you will find yourself at the base of cardiac hill colm and I just say what? Then he says well no hill has killed us yet and proof we did make it! One person made me laugh in the red book he put "I thought I was a heartless bastard until I went up cardiac hill now I am just a bastard"

views from Blackwood campsite yes we had to climb that high!

Other views as well

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