Orchard Road

I initially planned this walk from Google Earth and we went out to see how it was on the ground. I have walked in this area west of Perseverance Dam with the Tuesday group a couple of years ago but this time it was nice and soft after rain. We followed a track all the way and it was an enjoyable walk, though not challenging, as we mostly stayed on the contour of two ridges with a descent at the eastern end. Total distance was nearly 7 km.
In the afternoon we dealt with our weekly pile of mulch which I collect on Saturdays while Dick is playing golf.
It is spring planting time and I have at least 10 plants to put out which is always fun.

Picnic Point

We walked from Picnic Point Kiosk to Tabletop last Tuesday which was a good test of climbing and descent fitness. On Wednesday I had a good stretch at Yoga and loosened up with aqua aerobics and laps on Thursday morning, followed by Scottish Country dancing, so it became a good week of exercise by the time we had returned on Sunday to do an alternate walk from Neil and Ian's book.
We started up at the Kiosk area and took the path below the lookout, down the Firetail track to the road and out to the start of the climb to Tabletop.
Here we turned north along a fenceline and found ourselves on an old road across the contours. It was a bit overgrown with some fallen trees. We then turned west up a spur towards Picnic Point, passing not far from the end of Tabletop Drive. It was a good steady climb back up to the walking track below Picnic Point which we then followed to the north and zigzagging up to our car and coffee and cake on the grass with the tourists who had emerged by then. It will be good to return in a few weeks and do it in reverse.

Perseverance Spurs

I had hoped to lead a walk along the second spur south of Perseverance Heights, where we found some nice cliffs on our walk last October. This got hijacked somewhat last Tuesday and we did the third spur then, so Dick and I went out to do my planned walk on Sunday morning. It was nice out there but forecast to be windy so we headed out on an exploration I had only mapped from Google Earth. It was a good learning experience as I noticed a stick marker which, on our return, we found to be the old track along this spur. I tried walking on the more northerly face but ended up on another shorter spur with a steep descent at the end, but we got out to the cliffs and where we had climbed up to the buddha cave in October, had a walk around and smoko, then found the post splitting camp and the road back which was a pleasant somewhat overgrown track. These Sunday morning walks are very pleasant and the drive north towards Crows Nest has a lot of flowering wattles at this time of year.
I wonder if I can make an interesting circuit between the second and third spurs?