Up Sh#t Creek

Posted on December 17, 2021 by marilyn

WOLLANGAMBE – 16 -17 December 2021
Some years ago, Jeff, Trish and I did our epic trip down the Wollangambe River from The Centre of the Universe down to the Wollangambe 1 Entry track.  Since then, I’ve had in mind to go back and camp on the bank of the Wollangambe at the end of an interesting looking unnamed creek.  We’d passed this campsite on the epic trip.  The plan was to walk all the way down this creek and see what the canyon sections were like. Continue reading →

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Hiding in plain sight

Posted on December 8, 2021 by marilyn

GREAT NORTH WALK – SORT OF – 8 December 2021
This was a stunning walk, but treacherous, we probably should all have been wearing helmets, but for goodness sake it was a simple creek walk.  Mind you in this instance a helmet probably wouldn’t have helped.  But, I’m getting ahead of myself here. Continue reading →

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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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