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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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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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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.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Frenchmans Cap 2003 (Mar) 2007 (Jan)

Frenchmans Cap   March 2003, Jan 2007.

The first two times I climbed this mountain were in 2003 with a cheap film camera (the photos here), and in 2007, when the weather was so bad there was little point in taking photos. Both times we began from the carpark after lunch, went as far as Vera the first night, climbed up and down from there the next day, and were out by lunchtime on the third.
Here is a tiny selection of shots, not because they are anything at all, but only to keep the photographic record complete. I obviously need to climb this a third time, with my decent camera!! (Post script. I have now climbed it several more times.
See www.natureloverswalks.com/clytemnestra/

 
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Pelion West 2000 Feb

Pelion East and West   Feb 2000

Food stop on the way in to Pelion Hut. We climbed Pelion East that night in the gloaming. (No pics. I ran it from the hut).

Next day we set out for Pelion West (packs parked at Pelion Hut).

Below are summit shots
Happy on top
lunch … then out. 
For the sake of being thorough, I am trying to put in a photo of as many of the peaks I’ve summited.
On 12-13 Feb, 2000, we climbed Pelion East on the Saturday, having come in via the Arm River Track, and then Pelion West on the Sunday, before going back out. I ran up Pelion East from Pelion Hut, so didn’t take a camera, which I have always regretted, as the mountain was swathed in wonderful, atmospheric mist.
The photos above are taken from prints, as I didn’t go digital until 2004.