The COVID Road Trip – Part 2

Posted on April 27, 2024 by marilyn

TASMANIA – 27 April 2024
Our second day of “seeing the sights”.  We started at 7.30am to go to Burnie for Park Run.  This would be my first Park Run (well Park Walk) and I was fairly confident that I’d be able to manage a 5k walk.  The drive to Burnie was pretty average, lots of cows, farmland and haybales. Continue reading →

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The COVID Road Trip – Part 1

Posted on April 26, 2024 by marilyn

TASMANIA – 19 – 26 April 2024
Finally, after almost 12 months of planning, our day of departure has arrived.  Rod, Jim and I were going to Tassie for 2 weeks … 4 days of caving, and cleaning out a rubbish filled doline, then 6 days with the SRC cavers, helping them to do some track maintenance, and then 5 days back at Mole Creek for some recreational caving!  Doesn’t get much better than that! Continue reading →

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The opposite of Next Level Caving

Posted on March 30, 2024 by marilyn

UNDISCOSED LOCATION – March 2024
I’m not sure whether other people are as introspective as I am, but I often wonder what will I do when I can no longer do canyoning or caving?  I thought cave surveying would fill the void, but not sure I want to be belly-crawling through squeezes trying to measure to the next feature for much longer.  Nor do I want to go to the effort of keeping fit enough to do SRT caves and the type of canyons that I like.  So, what’s next you ask? Continue reading →

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Bludge walk with John

Posted on March 15, 2024 by marilyn

COOLEMAN PLAINS – 15 March 2024
I’d been “out of action” for over a week after cataract surgery, so I was keen to get out and do some exercise. I was down in the Kosciusko National Park at Yarrangobilly, waiting for the rest of the group to arrive and John B was going out to the Cooleman Plains to check on some limestone a-tents, so I decided to join him.  I’d be able to check out the brumby situation, and also get some exercise – win-win. Continue reading →

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No Gaps on Maps walk #3

Posted on February 11, 2024 by marilyn

MOUNT WILSON – 11 February 2024
This started out as a suggestion from John G for that we do a small unpublished canyon that I’d done about 6 years ago.  It was nice of him to ask me, he could easily have done this by himself (even solo)! When looking at the map, I saw that the creek the canyon was on flowed into a 2k section of South Bowens that I hadn’t done, whoo hoo maybe I could close a gap on the map!  Continue reading →

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