Category: mountains

Point to Pinnacle: Mount Nelson

My training for the Point to Pinnacle has basically been non-existent for the last three weeks. I have really struggled to get out of bed in the mornings and I’ve been lucky if I’ve managed more than one walk a week. This is Not Good when the event is...

Point to Pinnacle part 1

A backlog of posts about my Point to Pinnacle experience, being a not overly fit, desk-bound, not-getting-any-younger casual walker.  27 July 2018 I like to walk. I go for a 20-minute walk every morning and aim to walk at least 12,000 steps every day. Occasionally, I sign up for...

Southwest Tasmania Day 2 (part 2)

Read part 1 here. After lunch, we headed off in the opposite direction with the intention to see the Red Knoll Lookout. It starts with a 40km drive back the way we’d come yesterday to the turnoff to Scotts Peak Dam. About 2.5 km along the unsealed road was...

The Needles—Southwest Tasmania Day 1

This week we had a three-day break at Lake Pedder in Tasmania’s southwest. None of us had been before so we were all looking forward to it and had several short walks planned. From Hobart, we headed to New Norfolk and turned onto the Gordon River Road at Bushy...

Black & white #3

I’m starting to lose track of the days in my black & white photo project. I think this is day 22. Here are the next seven in the series....

Day 13: Another travelling song

Day 13: Another travelling song Ashburton, New Zealand Ashburton, New Zealand I can now add “cafe that offers its customers sunglasses to block out the early morning sun” to the list of places I’ve been in New Zealand. This was the Kitchen Table, just up from our motel in...

Day 11: On the road again

Day 11: On the road again Dunedin, New Zealand Dunedin, New Zealand We left a very cold Te Anau in the morning to arrive in a very warn Dunedin mid-afternoon. We took the 94 hghway back to Mossburn, where the turn off to Queenstown is, and continued through Lumsden...

Day 7: Queenstown

Day 7: Queenstown Queenstown, New Zealand Queenstown, New Zealand Wanaka, like Greymouth, was a stopover on the way somewhere else, but somewhere I could quite happily have spent more time. Today we had to get to Queenstown, which was only about an hour away, for another two-night stay. Our...

Day 5: Flying high

Day 5: Flying high Fox Glacier, New Zealand Fox Glacier, New Zealand We’d picked up a brochure for the glacier helicopter flights from the motel reception when we checked in last night. The motel has a deal with one of the companies, so their prices were a little cheaper...

Day 4: More ways to get yourself killed in NZ

Day 4: More ways to get yourself killed in NZ Fox Glacier, New Zealand Fox Glacier, New Zealand For most of our trip we’ve tried to make sure that following the longer driving days we have two nights at the next destination. This wasn’t the case this time, because...