This morning I thought I would have the day off, I’ve been climbing on the house roof for two days and before that the garage roof and so I thought that today I would have my feet planted firmly on Terra Firma and so I went for a bit of a bush walk to the White Rock Conservation area which is only about 20 mins away. The app called “Alltrails” is great because it allows you to locate these walks quickly and easily.

This walk was fairly easy and about 40% of it was on firebreaks and fire trails but the rest was off through the bush. it was not a difficult walk although there were a few sections where you had to take care with your footing.

White Rock stands proudly mid walk and is easy to climb to reach the top. Funny thing is when I neared the top of the rock I could hear voices and as I looked up there was a young black couple as black as the ace of spades descending White Rock, I thought that was funny for some reason.

On top of the rock the wind was howling and you had to be careful not lose your footing. it obviously been a very popular place over the years as the abundance of rock carvings can testify, although this ain’t no Aboriginal dream time cultural stuff, this is just the usual Tom.Dick and Harry graffiti brigade.

Not much wildlife on the trail, mind you there were a few large Bull ants, only a few birds were braving the winds and I was lucky to see a Goanna or some kind of lizard which was around one metre long. it casually strolled across the path in front of me and then walked through the bush parallel with me for a bit then disappeared. I haven’t seen one of them for donkey’s………..

This walk was around 7km but there is another which is nearly 18km which I might work up to, but will have to take lunch with me and plenty of water for that adventure.