Peter said:
My brief report is as follows,
12 participants
Approximately 12 km and it took about 3.45 hours
As there was a strong southerly blowing Bob advised us that he had changed the walk from the proposed Sorell walk (because of wind exposure while going round Orielton Lagoon ) to the Lauderdale Walk proposed later in the program. He will do the Sorell walk on the 12 November.
We met at the Lauderdale road end of the canal today to commence the walk from there.
We were delayed starting by about 15 mins because one carload of walkers realized as they were entering the causeway to Sorell that they had overshot the turnoff to Lauderdale by a couple of kilometers???. Apparently the reasoning was that the discussions in the car were so interesting that they were distracted from their navigational tasks.
Meanwhile Bob and Francesca had taken off from the car park to make sure that the missing group had not parked at our usual spot on the beach end of the canal.
Once the missing group arrived we proceeded down the canal and there is a photo of the meeting with Bob about halfway down the canal.
This little episode being sorted we commenced the walk in earnest.
It was actually quite a pleasant walk being sheltered fro the southerly winds most of the way.
The only difference from the Blogs 2014 walk was where we started from.
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| Leaving the car park |
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| Along the canal walking track |
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| Greeting Bob |
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| Lauderdale beach |
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| Old wharf structures |
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| Unusual sponge |
Certainly fooled me, I thought it was an unfortunate seabird - Jack
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| Mt. Wellington |
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| Cloud formations |
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| Mays Beach |
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| Morning Tea sheltered from the wind |
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| Parrot in hole of eucalyptus |
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| Fairy Orchid |
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| Lunch on the track |
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| Making friends with the locals |
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| Across the salt pan back to the cars |
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