Inblognito: Blogging Undercover

Inspired by the weather and the fitness resolutions of the new year, I set out on a walk last weekend. Where I live there are an amazing number of walks, short and long, basically everyone has a track nearby their house, no matter where you are in the city. The problem? I don’t take enough advantage of this. I left my house and within 5 minutes was on a track and stayed on one for 2 hours 45 minutes before hitting houses again. It was amazing, just magnificent. I love that I can walk for half an hour and see the Harbour, the Strait, my homeland, a windfarm, some traditional farmland, and I can still see the city as well.

This is about 20 minutes in I think, looking back towards my house, which is on the other side of the hill from the two power pylons in roughly the centre of the photo.

See that  little tip of an antenna in the middle? That’s where I was heading. (Next time I will take my camera instead of using silly phone!)

I saw some wildlife…

… and some signs of civilisation. Unfortunately (sort of) the hills are draped with these little necessities.  I do love this pic though.

You can just see my homeland in the distance, I was born and raised across the water, it always gives me a thrill to get to the top of the hill and see it. You can also sorta see the wind turbines (MUST take camera next time!)

Getting closer to the goal…

… and even closer still, that last bit of track was a killer. And this (hot!) guy came running up behind me as I got nearer to the top, then looped around the lookout at the top and immediately started running back from where he came from. Made me feel woefully inadequate in my efforts.

Made it! A well earned rest and snack was well in order. I was on about 1 hour 30 minutes by then.

Then I figured it would be fun to just keep on walking, so I went down the other side of the hill and kept walking north. By the way, it’s also extremely windy up on the ridges, it was a stunning day, but the wind kept the heat from getting to unbearable. It also got a bit tiresome at the end.

I was feeling a little lost by this stage, I’d passed a couple of exits I was pretty sure I didn’t want to take. I kept going though (I also might have fallen on my ass somewhere on that track) and eventually made it back into civilisation and caught the train home.

It was just amazing and I must remember to go more often, it’s all right there for the taking, and there’s a ton of different loops I can take. Next time I think I’ll head south once I hit the view at the top and loop back home a different way. I also discovered my phone takes crap pictures in the distance. Close up is good, scenery not so much.