The Pinnacle

I decided to walk to the pinnacle from Hall's Gap this morning. I was a planning a bigger walk anyway and decided not to go to Mt Sturgeon to do the most southerly peak. Too far. So the pinnacle! It is 400 metres of elevation and 5.6k to the Wonderland car park where I arranged Marjan to be for the application of heart massage.

Headed off about nineish and was going pretty good. The route I chose is not the steepest but it does have four quite steep sections. The end of the first steep section brought me to a beautiful bluff which ends the Wonderland Range.

Whilst it was a hard slog I kept the heart rate below 200 so all good. Some flowers around here as well

but mostly rocky ground and scrubby plants.

no shots of the pinnacle, you'll just have to trust me that I made it. The light was in my face so the shots are a sub-par even for me. But here is one I liked from the way down.

Marjan was waiting for me at the car park and the thoughts of doing the complete loop, another 3.5k, disappeared with her offer of ice-cream.

We had a swim, a bike ride, a nap and an ice-cream, but not in that order. I need to bring a little uncertainty to the blog to add dramatic tension.

So a celebratory steak for the walk, a nice sleep, a 5:30 am wake up call from a thousand cockatoos a view of some roos and then we drive back home to torment Anna.