s e v e n i s a j o u r n e y

Last Saturday Tam and I took a little walk. We hopped over the fence, cut across Steve’s gum plantation, then hopped the next fence onto Stuart’s sheep farm (it is nice to know the people and have permission!). Stuart has a nice farm road up into the hills, so we set forth to see what we could find. At the top of the ridge we hopped a locked gate onto John’s farm (a pine plantation). I wanted to find the “mysterious pit of doom” that Stuart had once mentioned. Somewhere in that pine plantation is a big ~10 foot deep hole, with sheep bones at the bottom. Something you would not want to fall into in the middle of the night. No luck finding it, but we had fun exploring the roads through forest.

A series of “I wonder what is around that corner” explorations led us into the Belmont reserve, and from there it was only logical to climb to the top of Blemont Trig, right? Well, it was a heck of a view. Also a fairly good climb, as we ascended about 350m in total. We thought about taking photos from the top, where you can see Wellington harbor on one side and the Porirua inlet on the other, but realized that the camera just wouldn’t capture the true image. So no picture this time. By the time we got back (calves aching from the climb) we were joking how this was much like our climb of Round Knob last November- an expedition where we would have hesitated to make such a grand hiking plan, but it all happened by accident.

Considering how many forks in the path we crossed along the way, it would be well worth it to go back and explore more of the forest and reserve on some future weekend. Maybe we will yet find the pit-o-doom.

In other news yesterday I had a visit from the Rural Fire Inspector, and she gave me a licence to BURN! Hahahaha! For the next year, no less! Hopefully this weekend the weather conditions will be right and we will destroy that gorse pile. You can be sure we will get photos of that!