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Published: September 4th 2005
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Father's Day cuddle
Dad and Dan huddled up like animals. Happy Father's Day
As it was Father's Day, we allowed Peter to choose which walk he would like to do. He chose Warren, a lovely park that we have visited only once before - and that was a hot day in March. There had been steady rain in Adelaide yesterday, which had really cleared the air - making the scenery extra sharp and vibrant. It was just perfect weather for walking.
Warren is situated half way between Kersbrook and Williamstown, about 1 hour north of our place. The turn off is a sneaky number - a right hand turn on to Watts Gully road that is easy to miss - and you can park at the entrance to the park which is about 3 kms further down this road.
The path takes in much of the Heysen trail for this region. It is a 7km loop with a 1 km walk in and out. It took us about 3 hours to walk it. It is increadibly well sign posted which makes the walking less stressful. To make it a bit interesting we took the loop in the opposite direction to the last time.
The loop trail
goes up and then down into a frog-filled gully with running water and a wooden bridge and then up to a ridge which follows around the park to the top most point, where a fire tower is located. This area has been cleared to help with fire spotting, but it also makes for beautiful views in all directions. This is where we had lunch. The path then follows around and through a rocky area and back to the beginning.
Being the first week of spring the plants were all getting ready, or were, blooming. Many of the photos we took were of some of the spring activity - another month or so and it will be like walking in a garden of colour. The air was getty heady with the fragrance of all the blossoming plants.
The birds were very happy - and although we do spot them, there is no way we can photograph them adequately with the little camera we carry on our walks. In the bushes we saw
wrens and different types of
honey eaters, in the trees there were
rosellas and other parrots,
kookaburras and
galahs. Although not spotted, there certainly was evidence of
emus Flower
A small but pretty flower and kangaroos. Yes there were also magpies (that were using me as target practice for their dive-bombing) and
currawongs,
wedge-tail eagles and crows.
So, all in all, an excellent walk with some insightful stuff from Dan about being a father and what he would do the same and differently when he is a father...
Hope all you folk out there enjoyed your Father's day celebrations as well 😊
Dan says ...
Calling all Dads!!! Calling all Dads!!!
Happy Fathers Day!!!
On Father's Day I was expecting to stay home. Well, not this day. We had to get our exercise. We couldn't do any yesterday because it was so rainy all day. If we don't exercise our bones start to deteriorate, our muscles become flabby, our arms wobbly and our bellies fat. We don't want that to happen do we - no not at all!
My Dad got a cup of tea in bed this morning with some toast and honey. I gave him a pair of walking socks as a present and a card that I made at school. Dad wore the socks walking today and said "I love them, they're SOOO comfortable". Dad and I had breakfast in bed.
The drive was long but on the way back I was so tired I slept all the way and the drive seemed much shorter. I played the monkey game that I got from Matthew on his birthday. The monkey game is about catching bananas that fall. If you collect all the monkey body parts you win and it plays a neat tune. It has 3 massive levels and cool graphics.
When we got to the walk we saw a man who had just finished the walk. We had morning tea and talked with him about his walks. I didn't really listen as it sounded a bit boring.
The path starts with a board walk and when you finish it you find the first check-point. There are four check-points. A check point is a long pole and on the top is a map showing where all the check-points are. The check-points are yellow and black. Every 0.2 km there was a distance marker, which showed you how far you had walked and how far you need to go. The walk was 9.0 km in total and took us just over 3 hours with breaks.
When we were about 1.2 km away from the start, I heard a lot of birds making beautiful noises. The bush smelt beautiful (except that bush with the bottom-shaped flowers - they could only smell like farts!).
The views were beautiful - it was like your heart showing you what love is like in the visual dimension.
Many of the rocks on this walk were shiny. This was because they had a type of mineral in them that reflected light like a mirror.
The magpie was bad - it swooped on us like an aeroplane crashing down. It was swooping because it had eggs in its nest and it thought we wanted to eat them.
The flowers are starting to blossom with Spring - like little packages of beauty.
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Diana
Name of bottom plant
It looks like a Eutaxia species based on the shape of the flower http://www.anu.edu.au/BoZo/Crisp/Mirbelieae/Eutaxia.html