Caving Expedition in Western Australia – Week #1

Posted on July 3, 2022 by marilyn

FAR NORTH WEST OF WA – 27 June to 2 July – I was honoured to be accepted on an ISS cave surveying expedition to the far NW region of WA.  The first ISS surveying trip was in 2009 and they’ve been going back pretty much every year since.  Other cavers had been to the area quite a few years earlier and had reported that there was “not much there”.  How wrong they were! Continue reading →

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Picture Canyon – the best canyon in the Budawangs

Posted on June 12, 2022 by marilyn

THE BUDAWANGS – 11 & 12 June 2022
Every once in a while you lead a trip when nothing goes according to plan, but at the end of the weekend, you realise that what you did was meant to happen.  This was one of those trips and we got to see Picture Canyon – “the best canyon in the Budawangs”, according to the Budawangs Bushwalks book, mind you, I think there’s only one! Continue reading →

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Mary Jane canyon recce

Posted on June 10, 2022 by marilyn

BLUE MOUNTAINS – 10 June 2022
As many of my friends know, I’ve been wanting to clean up some plastic items in this canyon for some time, but the job needs more people than I have access to in MSS so I decided to call upon another group to see if they’d be interested in this project.  After all, I sometimes suggest a “we’ll just” project and it then becomes an epic, I wanted a second opinion on the feasibility of the project. Continue reading →

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Who says I don’t know how to do an easy walk?

Posted on June 6, 2022 by marilyn

GUNDERMAN – 5 – 6 June 2022
I’ve been talking about going into some of the creeks off the Electricity Commission fire tail for some time and with a weekend free, and no appetite to do anything too hard, I decided to do a bludge overnight walk.  I circulated details and two Steves signed up for the weekend!  I made sure they didn’t back out by suggesting that I carry in a Jaffle Iron to make jaffles for dinner! Who in their right mind would miss out on jaffles. Continue reading →

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Where not to attach your camera

Posted on May 29, 2022 by marilyn

KULNURA – 29 May 2022
Another skills development day, this time navigation practice in the Kulnura area – and a fitness walk for me (part of my get fit phase).   Continue reading →

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