If 2020 has taught me anything at all, it is patience. I'm unaccustomed to sitting idle while waiting for circumstance to present the perfect setting for adventure. In times gone by adventure has usually found me, however lately the freedom that the greater wild offers has been put on hold.
The world feels strangely different. Nature seemingly oblivious, disinterested....unsympathetic to our plight. The brilliance of the human race has once again received the blow required to reset the absurdity of selfish thinking, comical governing and incompetence.
The answer as always awaits us out there....
Wandering a familiar path through a recovering landscape, windswept heath and deep valleys, my thoughts returned to so many fantastic ventures. Sitting silently in awe as thousands of fireflies hovered gently in the darkness, stopping halfway down the 4th pitch of the most beautifully green canyon....the subtle sound of a rope under tension and my own heart beating. Pushing for hours through untracked Lawyer vine until my bleeding lacerated legs contrasted beautifully against a sea of green ferns in Bluegum forest. A sleepless night hunkered down on the valley rim in 100kph winds.....
The Grose Valley.....
We returned to spend the day walking out to Lockleys Pylon and found a recently burnt landscape in full recovery mode. A perfect day and a lovely amble.
