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Gussy learns bushwalking 2011

Wineglass Bay: Baby Gus learns bushwalking. His first overnighter.

A photo story …..


Three generations of Fairfaxes on Wineglass Bay Beach at the completion of Gussy’s first overnighter. This was a perfect destination for such an adventure.

 

Gussy, surrounded by love. He approves of Wineglass Bay

 



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Bay of Fires 2007 Jan

Bay of Fires Walk  30-31 Jan 2007

We wanted to do the Bay of Fires walk, but did not want to pay a fortune to do what we could do perfectly well without paying anybody to do for us. But!! How do you solve the problem of a left vehicle up north while the walkers finish down south? That bit we couldn’t quite solve. Some enterprising fisher[person needs to offer a kind of water-taxi service like they do in New Zealand.

And precisely because we couldn’t solve that problem any other way, we parked in the middle of this walk. On the first day, we went to the northern end and back with just our daypacks, and the second day, went to the southern end and back. We thus effectively did the walk twice, but without big backpacks, and without the transport problems. We have no objections to backpacks, but big objections to hitchhiking in a car-less environment. This way was much better. It was good to see everything from both northern and southern angles, and the water was so spectacular, it was great to prolong our exposure to its beauty.

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Walls of Jerusalem 2005 Family run

Walls of Jerusalem    30 Dec 2005. 

Living as close as we do to the Walls, (Launie), it is very easy for us to dash up there, go for a run and return home, the whole exercise not taking overly long. As a result, when I was an athlete, I often did reps up and down to Trappers’ Hut, or ran into the Walls themselves. Here are shots of a family run in 2005 after Christmas.


 

 

 
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Roland, Claude, Van Dyke Triple Tops 1993, ’94, ’96, ’97, 2003, ’04

Triple Tops: Mts Roland, Claude and Van Dyke  1993, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003 and 2004

Roland

There is a wonderful race that covers these three mountains (Triple Tops), which I have had the pleasure of doing many times. One pays a price later for racing down Roland, and, when one is out to win, one doesn’t actually see the view in great detail, but, that said, there is time, even at record pace, to enjoy the sense of being up high with the world spread out below as you race. Often snow capped mountains are visible off to the right (it is held in November), and the heath flowers are often blooming beautifully. Other times, it is blowing a gale and the mist is swirling around. One time it was even hot.

I have just consulted my records: I ran it, and won it, 6 times: 1993 (when I was 6 mins faster than the then male record, despite being lost for 5 mins, having taken a wrong turn in the rocks at the top of Van Dyke), 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003 and 2004. My fastest time, which includes the time being lost, was 2 hrs 11 mins for the three.
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Anne 2004 Apr

Mt Anne  16 April, 2004

This trip was a family expedition, in which we intended to do the whole Anne circuit, but, due to the weather closing in, our plans necessarily changed. At least we got to the summit! According to the log book in high camp hut, we were the only lucky ones who were able to capitalise on the single brief window of opportunity that Easter. The weather looks glorious in the photos, and yet by the time we’d summitted and were back on the Eliza plateau, it had closed in and was raining. We thus abandoned our original plans, and came out the way we went in, drowned rats.