Tour Guiding

Hey there!
Things always seem to be happening…
The council put out a local catalogue with events happening in spring so people would start getting out and about.
Sharon and I had two special soap workshops done in town (One done, one yet to do) and an extra workshop at her place yesterday.

I also volunteered to do a couple of guided walks over in the Sisters Hills/Rocky Cape area.
I had my first one on Saturday.

Just a small ‘group’ – a couple of nice ladies who lived locally but had never done this walk before… and a gentleman who (believe it or not) went to school with my mother!! Small world. He even had a class photo of them that he sent me! Terry grew up in the area and spent a lot of time down at Anniversary Bay but happily had never been up the track I started out on or seen the Wet Cave so it was nice I was able to introduce him to something new!

The entrance always looks a bit iffy

The ladies weren’t game enough to come in! (It does look spooky)

It was actually a fairly nice day – it drizzled for about half of the walk, then dried up. Without the wind it actually got quite muggy

The old banksia trees!

A bit grey but the views were still nice

Eventually we got down to the shore

Time for a bit of a fossick about

And a sit down just to enjoy the peace!

The ocean was so calm

Seaside life

As we came out of the bush track onto the beach there was a large family who had been walking around the area… but from there on in… no people as usual

(Except us)

Time to go inland up that horrible hill and hope everyone didn’t hate me for it

Puff puff… everyone did it fine!
But we did sit down for some lunch/snack and enjoyed the views… until the leeches marched in!!
Then there was a bit of a hurry to get to our feet and move on!!

Quite pretty in an ‘ew’ kind of way

Once up the last lot of hills, we looked back to the weather that was chasing us

The last part of the track is rather nice… just meanders back down to the car park

Parts of the track were really boggy…

They airlifted in materials about 4 years ago to work on the track… all still sitting there in a pile. 🙁

Grouchy looking weather!
But the little wildflowers were pretty

Getting back to civilisation again!

Just before heading down the numerous steps to finish off, an echidna was discovered on the side of the path, digging up ants and bugs!! He/she didn’t seem too worried about us and even put his nose back out for the photos!
I adore them! Furry spikey funny things!

We were out about 4 hours – and everyone really enjoyed themselves which was great!
I hope I have a few more people booking in for the next walk over to Cathedral Rocks later in the month!!

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend!
Cheers