My local bus stop

Bealman · June 18, 2021, 10:51:28 AM

Let me modify the previous post... an unexpected trip away, not an unexpected trip up on the rock platform

Webbo · June 18, 2021, 12:03:15 PM

An island? Montague or Brush, perhaps?

Bealman · June 19, 2021, 02:21:54 AM

Nah, it's not even an island! The place is Broulee, south of Bateman's Bay. The 'island' is actually connected to the mainland by a vegetated sand spit.

You can start off on one side of the spit, walk around what is essentially a headland, and come back to the other side after about an hour and a half.

I had to turn back the way I came, but Mrs Bealman made it all the way around:

Bealman · June 19, 2021, 04:01:49 AM

Map in the beach car park sorta explains it. We started at the top part of the narrow neck, I got as far as the top right hand turn.

Mrs B made it right round to the other side of the spit, where she found me sitting on a log complaining I was thirsty

Webbo · June 19, 2021, 05:27:40 AM

I know Broulee

Bealman · June 19, 2021, 05:29:56 AM

Nearest club 7km away

Bealman · June 19, 2021, 05:31:01 AM

Quite a few bus stops on the way though

Bealman · June 24, 2021, 05:18:41 AM

Masks back on at the bus stop.... and every bloody well else in Sydney, actually. We're classed as Greater Sydney.

Bealman · July 01, 2021, 04:01:26 AM

Bealman has not visited the bus stop recently because of lockdown.

Normal services are due to resume July 10. Ho hum.

Trainfish · July 01, 2021, 10:40:36 AM

When we were in 'full' lockdown we were still allowed 45 minutes exercise/walk each day. Can't you just do that for old times sake?

Bealman · July 02, 2021, 03:46:19 AM

If I do that, it'll be in the opposite direction through countryside (though not as 'country' as it was twenty years ago) up to Mount Kembla village.

TrevL · July 02, 2021, 07:38:14 AM

It'll be down on the way back.

Trainfish · July 02, 2021, 10:46:20 AM

On that note, when people do the Lands End to John O Groats walk why don't they do it in the opposite direction? Surely it would be easier going downhill wouldn't it? Or am I just being silly? (Probably no need to answer that)

Bealman · July 02, 2021, 11:50:49 PM

Yes you are being silly, although I always think of south as going downhill. I always say I'm going down to Melbourne and Adelaide.

Adelaide is actually not South at all - it's on the same latitude as Chez Bealman just about - so it's west!

Anyway, there's not much point in me walking up to Mount Kembla village.... the pub up there is shut too.

railsquid · July 03, 2021, 01:45:42 AM

Quote from: Trainfish on July 02, 2021, 10:46:20 AM
On that note, when people do the Lands End to John O Groats walk why don't they do it in the opposite direction? Surely it would be easier going downhill wouldn't it? Or am I just being silly? (Probably no need to answer that)

It'd be much easier to take the train?