Mt Misery

Drove west of our place today for the first time since all the restrictions!
I was dropping off a book to Fiona and she suggested a bit of a hike!

So – Mt Misery! (What a name) was the challenge. We are not talking so much of a hike as a bush-bash. No tracks – just game trails, a creek, a river and a lot of ‘up’

Hey look!! Its me! Complete with super-hero shirt!

The colour of the river is spectacular! Its stained from the tea trees and I just love it!

This spot was fairly shallow – we didn’t get too wet as we smartly stepped across.

How spooky does that look? Almost devoid of colour!

I didn’t have the camera out a lot as once we were really going up, it was a scramble over and under logs and fallen branches.
Soon enough the huge rocks appeared out of the landscape

On the right side above is the underside of a fallen tree!

Fiona clearing dead branches as we decided to go up this side of the rock…

Um… I kid you not. This bit was a challenge. We’d just scrambled up the soft leaf litter slope (not much shy of vertical) then up to the left on our tummies between tree and boulder!
So Fiona – nearly 60, me, nearly 50 and we are stuck up this ridiculous rock laughing our heads off because we were imagining how embarrassing the rescue was going to be!
When it was my turn, my feet lost purchase below (you know, on the sheer slope) and I am on my stomach, gripping that tree and some dirt.
Fiona got my hand and I got dragged up enough to be able to haul myself up!

Nope. Things are rarely boring here!

We found more stable ‘paths’ and got to the top of the rock where we enjoyed a mandarin, a drink and a sit down!
We firmly agreed that we’d find another way down – often sliding on spongy leaf litter and going from tree to tree to get some stability (and that goes well until your cousin tries to drop a tree on your head…)

It was an awesome afternoon!!
My clothes need a good scrubbing though!!

Cheers!