Magical Sea Caves

Posted on December 4, 2021 by marilyn

EAST COAST OF NSW – 4 December 2021
Exploring sea caves isn’t easy, the tides have to be just right (low king tide); the low tide has to fall during daylight hours; and the seas need to be calm.  Add to that the fact that most people that I know work and so to go with the, the low king tide has to fall on a Saturday or Sunday, what are the odds of that?  There’s no fun for me in solo explorations. Continue reading →

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Another trip of Epic proportions

Posted on November 20, 2021 by marilyn

NEWNES PLATEAU – 20 November 2021
Is it possible that I’m the common factor in the Epic Trips of recent times?  We were doing Breakfast Creek, there was no reason to expect that it would turn into an epic, I guess it was another case of the Swiss Cheese Model.  The silver lining is that once again I proved that I could do a 12 hour day and still have some energy left over at the end of the day. Continue reading →

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2 Stunning abseils

Posted on November 6, 2021 by marilyn

BLUE MOUNTAINS – 6 November 2021
We were all headed up to the Blue Mountains for the MSS AGM and Annual Dinner, it seemed a waste of a road trip not to at least do a small half day activity as we’d be up there. So I put the hard word on Johan to take us on a nice multi pitch abseil.  He settled on Sahara and Kilimanjaro – bonus, the last time I did Kilimanjaro it was a horrible abseil would be good to do it again and this time “get it right”. Continue reading →

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The rest of the Juggler Weekend

Posted on October 24, 2021 by marilyn

BLUE MOUNTAINS – 24 October 2021
As we couldn’t do the planned canyons (due to not being able to travel out of our region), Rod had planned Juggler as a replacement, which we did, but didn’t have a plan for Sunday.  So, we sat around John’s kitchen table and tossed around some ideas for an “easy yet interesting” day and came up with a trip down Victoria Brook.  John wasn’t coming but had done it recently so gave us an idea of what to look out for. Continue reading →

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Lockdown is over – well, almost!

Posted on October 23, 2021 by marilyn

BLUE MOUNTAINS – 23 October 2021
Whilst we could travel to the Blue Mountains, anyone from Greater Sydney (Central Coast, Sydney, Wollongong and Blue Mountains) were not allowed to go further afield into Regional NSW.  And, what do you know, the trip scheduled for this weekend was in Regional NSW.  So, we came up with a Plan B. Continue reading →

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