Walkies

Well, it did dry up enough for me yesterday, so I did go out on a longer walk. I set out up through Flynn, and Fraser, and up to the top of Mount Rogers. Or maybe it should be called “Rogers Hill”….or “That slight rise in the land over there that we’ve named after some Rogers guy”.
OK, so it wasn’t a very big hill….but it was a nice walk…and I set myself a fairly quick pace, that I was able to keep up for the whole hour and 20 minutes, so I’m happy.
When I lived with my parents in Spence, I used to go to the top of (I won’t use the word climb, ’cause that’s too generous) mount rogers fairly often, since the peak was only a few hundred meters behind their house. I’d forgotten what the view was like though…
It was a fairly crisp but sunny sort of day…lots of cumulus floating around in an otherwise perfectly blue sky…causing islands of shade to float over Belconnen as I watched.
Canberra really is a very nice looking city…or at least Belconnen is….I’m not sure that a similar view from one of the hills in one of the southern suburbs would be as good – probably just a sea of red, orange and brown roofs.
You have the leafyness of the suburbs, with only the largest of roads managing to slice their way through, there’s lake Gininderra in the middle of it all, with Black Mountain (this one definitely qualifies for hill, but that’s about it), looming up behind….and all around you are the Brindabella, Giniderra and Tidbinbilla ranges….all very black and menacing since the bushfires.
I would have stayed up there a while…but I felt like I needed someone with me to share it with…and there were a couple of kids playing around up there that kind of broke the mood anyway…so I carried on back home.
When Tessa gets back, we’ll have to do some walks together…

Today, I headed out towards Melba…nothing spectacular there….just Canberra suburbs….’cept that just after the half way point, once I’d started heading back towards Charnwood, it started to rain….
At first it was OK, ’cause the walk up to that point had been fairly hot…and the rain wasn’t very heavy (even if the raindrops were rather large)…but then the sun went behind the cloud…and the rain got heavier….and I spent the last 20 minutes of my walk getting soaked.
I guess that’s what I get for going outside in spring….heh.