The Creek

Today I was out training at the park all day, with my friend and next-door neighbour Nathan. We also watched a bit of cricket my school friends were playing.

However, the best moment of the day came when Nathan said he would show me the creek that is at the bottom of our road through some bush.

We went around a few paths and the first thing I noticed was there were a few rocks. And then as we got right near the creek, there are some great rocks for training on. I looked at a few runs and jumps, and then we headed on, and decided we would come back and train there later. We crossed the creek using some thin logs, and then followed the path on the other side.

We passed underneath some huge rock overhangs, which were spectacular. On one you could see lots of layers of rock, they started off horizontal but as we carried on walking they twisted to about a 45 degree angle, it was really cool. I need to take pictures of it.

After walking along the path for a fair way, we came to the dam wall, which we balanced across, back to the original side. The paths here were very bushy, so I suggested we crawl up this large fallen tree, which was laid across and above the bush. After coming off the other end the bush thinned out, and we crossed a cow paddock back to the park, after some more walking.

Then we headed back down to the rocks for a while. I spotted a fairly large arm jump across a water gap onto this rock, which I subsequently did, and then did a few runs and tic tacs. I suggested we explored to the right of the rocks, and we ended up doing this big long run through the trees, over branches and rocks. It was so fun, we felt like proper animals.

After all our fun, we headed up back onto our estate, fully tired and sweaty and dirty. Only later did we find out that it was getting warmer, so there could have been lots of snakes. We knew about the spiders and leeches and lizards, but it was lucky we didn't see any snakes. Will look out next time, Kurrajong is Funnel Web Spider and Common Brown Snake central, the deadliest spider and one of the deadliest snakes in the world.