Quendarella
- Start date: 23 July 2022
- Age When Completed: 52
- Direction Walked: North to South
General Comments
Solo in actual walking only - I had so much help from so many people from food drops to medical supplies and Garmin replacements! I appreciate it all! Incredible work by the Maintenance Volunteers with so many thoughtful touches.
Food/Supplies Comments
Naughty Noodle Bar in Northcliffe - what a gift!
Peaceful Bay Fish & Chips - love, love, love.
Favourite Section
Northcliffe to Walpole.
Highlights
Blue sky was a highlight in the first 2 weeks! Pingerup Plains…William Bay sunset…
Personal Reactions
Walking in to Albany on the last day of the hike, I reflected on how I want to live my life based on what I’d learned.
In the few months since I wrote it, it’s been a helpful guide to help me re-calibrate and I’m looking forward to referring back to it throughout 2023.
In my life I want:
- more fiction and less news
- more stillness and less busy-ness
- more creation and less consumption
- more listening and less speaking
- more compassion and less judgement
- more respect and gratitude for my body and less criticism and harsh assessment
- less people-pleasing and more listening to my body/ gut and thinking “what do I want?”
- more listening to my own knowing and less seeking answers outside myself.
I think about putting my ladder up the “right wall” (Joseph Campbell); but do I need to be clearer about what that wall is and is not?
The Wrong Wall:
- too much wine/ alcohol
- too many clothes
- lessons in too many things
- eating out too often
- over-eating
- over-committing.
The Right Wall:
- fresh food
- stretching, walking, yoga
- meditation
- photography/ writing
- leaving time and space in life.
Wildlife
Waddling Echidna between Ball Creek and Helena was cute. The dugite waiting at Nullaki, not so much…
Your Best Equipment
Soto Windmaster Stove.
Your Worst Equipment
Expensive rainpants - spectacular fail - I put them on back to front in the pouring rain on day one and they split! Also, despite having side zips they couldn’t get over my boots. Ugh.
Advice for Others
Take your earplugs - the Sea to Summit sleeping mats that loads of people have are insanely squeaky and noisy.