We weren’t off to a good start this morning with the fuse blowing for the rear camera screen. And being a Sunday morning, Albany is like a ghost town as far as shopping goes. Eventually a Super Cheap Auto was found open and we were on the road again.
A bit of geocaching along the way to the Stirling Ranges, meeting with some local cachers on the way arriving at the Castle Rock carpark around 12:30pm. The weather was overcast but the clouds were high so hopefully the rain holds off. It is a 2.2 km walk up to the Granite Skywalk, 90% of which is uphill, so we got wet on the walk up but from sweat not rain.
The walk up took just over an hour which afforded views off the side of the granite outcrop known as Castle Rock through to Albany and beyond. The walk back down was 15 minutes quicker and a lot easier with a lot less sweat. J
What is the infatuation with Western Australia of building platforms on immovable objects everywhere? Yesterday it was The Gap, today the Granite Skywalk and tomorrow it will be the Tree Top Walkway.
Phone coverage was getting dodgy so it was time to go off the grid for 24 hours as we headed to our friends farm on the northern side of the Stirling Ranges. Last time we visited was back in 1994, and things have changed with Michael and Marie taking over the family farm and moving into the main house.
Unbeknown to me, there had been conniving going on in the background and we arrived to a birthday cake for afternoon tea and a lamb roast for dinner. A very nice surprise.
With lambing due to start in the next month, a nightly ritual is to go spot lighting to eradicate foxes before the lambs start to drop. Even with perfect conditions albeit cold, the count for the night was only one fox and one rabbit.
We were a little spoilt for our campsite for the night with being able to reverse the caravan and car into the newest shed and set up on a level surface and protected from the buffeting of the winds (although tonight was calm). Every guy should have a shed this big.
