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Labyrinth and Lake Marion 2012 Jan

Labyrinth and Lake Marion   28-29 Jan, 2012

Walled Mountain, silhouetted Lake Ophion.

Walled mountain, Lake Ophion next morning.

The Acropolis from our early morning walk to Lake Elyssia from our campspot at Ophion.

Mt Geryon from Lake Elyssia, pre-breakfast stroll.

Mt Gould and Lake Cyane.

Lake Marion, night 2

The Guardians in dramatic colour, reflected in Lake Marion. 
This was a very hot weekend, and once we’d climbed onto the labyrinth, swimming was a high priority. Another was to circumambulate our lake (Ophion), and to climb up high for sunset. After dark, we sat by our lake and watched the alpenglow behind Walled Mountain.
The next day we climbed some other knobs and rises for photos before breakfast, returning quite hungry, as we ended up covering quite a bit of ground. There was time for more swimming and lazing before depitching and descending to move camp to Lake Marion, far below, where we were treated with a lovely vermillion sunset shining on the flanks of The Guardians above, and reflected the unruffled waters of the lake.
The final day was a nice short one, which left plenty of time for more swimming in Lake St Clair while we waited for the ferry.
 
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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.