Woodlife

Everything is now packed and loaded. A quick visit to the local camping shop to buy a couple of MREs, a cotton sleeping bag liner and oh yeah…a Tilley T3 slipped into my shopping basket! An expensive trip but what the heck!

The pack looks pretty big fully loaded, but it’s actually not that heavy. I wouldn’t like to hike with it though. Not with my standard of fitness anyway. I will obviously assess everything I use and more importantly what I don’t.

So, it’s up at 5:30 am and away at 6:00am for the 4 hour journey.

I’ll leave you with a visitor from last night in my pond, which just happens to be about 3 feet away from my ear when I sleep in the garden. He kept me awake for a while last night, not with the expected croaking sound, but a kind of grunting not dissimilar to a hedgehog.

See you next week when I’ll start a day by day account of 5 days at the Bushmoot.

See you.