bushwalks #7 to Mt. Wellington

filed under: tasmania trips

So, it’s time for a short update of you guys out there!

It was very quiet around here in Tasmania, so we all could get many of our work done. Flux worked on his thesis and I started to work on my German Carnival website faschingsfreunde.com what I should done a long time ago. But after 2 and a half weeks of doing “nothing” it was time to find new challenging adventures.

The first trip was up to the summit of Mt. Wellington, the mountain next to Hobart. Sounds like ordinary hiking, but it was hiking with a special twist, couse we started with a compas but no map. Ok, we had a map, but it was an overview of Hobart, with a little dot in the lower left that pointed the summit of Mt. Wellington. Not really helpful!

What I did was taking photographs of the maps on bigger junktions or resting areas. It was really funny, standing in the middle of nowhere and use the compas to make your camera point north ;)

We only got lost one time, which costs us 20 minutes walk back. Not very much if you consider that the whole tripe took 10 hour.

We saw many strange and weird things, like a tree that looks like it was bleeding, an ant that was 5cm long and of course the bushfirefields! (@Tanja: Told you so! ;))

After all it was a hard an awesome day….. more to come!

 2005-01-27 by Jochen