The Overland Track, Tasmania

Christmas is not my only excuse for not posting recently, we have been away hiking the Overland Track in Tassie.  6 nights and 7 days of hiking the Cradle Mountain to Lake St Clair region, camping in gorgeous locations each evening and wondering at incredible and ever changing scenery each day.  Plenty of wildlife - wombats, pademelons, wallabies, echidna, a HUGE possum attempting to enter our tent and not just one but about 6 platypus!

Amazing weather (aside from rain on the last night, which we paid for by having set up camp in what turned out to be a very large puddle by morning).  Yummy home made gourmet dehydrated dinners and our favourite end-of-day snack: popcorn with plenty of salt cooked on the trangia.

The only downside to the whole trip was getting back to Perth to have the awful pain I had been experiencing in my feet on the last day of walking being diagnosed as stress fractures of my heel bones.  At least I've felt justified in how much I'd been hobbling since finishing the hike, not even able to limp given it is both heels!  'Keep off your feet as much as possible' is what I am meant to be doing.  Ha!  Washing all the stinky hiking gear, hosting of Christmas gatherings, a 20 month old who is increasingly mobile and an ingrained need to always be doing something.  It hasn't been easy, but still worth it!

Time to 'Capture' something

 The aim of this blog wasn't just to create and craft, but also to 'capture' things outside of these domains.  Had a chance over the weekend to do just that with a visit to Kings Park with overseas visitors.  The local wildlife was very friendly to begin with, and became very, very friendly when I produced Little Imp's corn puff snacks.  Made for some easy close up photo's.

Little Imp seemed oblivious to it all, and after crawling and rolling through the copious duck droppings decided it was time for a spot of 'down-face-dog'!  Good thing I hadn't dressed her in her Sunday Best.