Our Walk in Southwest National Park

Today its been a week since I had my teeth out - it all went really well - the stiches will fall out in a day or two and then I go back to the surgeon in a couple of weeks for the final checkup. It really helped my recovery that the last few days of spring and the first few days of summer had rubbish weather!!

Yesterday was the first beautiful day of summer and nat and I both had the day off (YAY!) We decided to go for a bushwalk in the South West National Park. Because I have been rather slothful for the last week (and the last few months due to winter and study) I was a little nervous going for a big walk. We decided to walk to the hut just below Mt Eliza. The walk was steep and oh my goodness the views were to die for! We decided to not climb to the sumit because although I am not too bad going up steep rocky things I (and my knees and ankles) really struggle coming down. So we gave it a miss this time.

For those who are interested here are some pics from the day:

Me and Nat - just heading out on our adventure (actually we are a little way up the mountain)

Mt Anne is the peak - the Mt Eliza walk continues onto Mt Anne - it is the toughest day walk in Tasmania (according to what Nat has read)

Me trying to get a splinter out of my finger. (That is what used to be Lake Pedder in the background before the Hydro Electric Commission Flooded it - its still pretty)

I got the splinter out!!!

At the hut just about to eat our lunch. We packed sandwiches with kittee's seitan, vegan mayo (recipe to come in a day or two), BBQ sauce (nat's only) and home grown salad greens. We also had WVaV ginger cookies and a fruit and nut mix. Mmmmmm... food tastes so good when you have just walked up a mountain.

Can you seen the ribbon of track on the two rises - it was so pretty to watch the track unfold down to our car.