Members Adventures

Mon 19 th – Thurs 22 nd April, 2021 Photography by Frances Watt Monday - 10 members of the U3A hiking group carpooled to Dinner Plain near the Mt Hotham resort, arriving shortly after 4pm . After settling into our lovely two storey, 14 bed house some of us went on a short walk to what we thought was Carmichael’s Falls. We found a small, pleasant cascade but as somebody noted “it’s not Niagara Falls!”  It turned out that we should have continued further along the track to see the real thing. Dinner that night was fresh trout bought en route at the Mountain Fresh Trout & Salmon Farm in Harrietville. It’s worth a short stop just to have a wander around this very attractive fish farm. Fun fact 1: Trout tastes like salmon! Fun fact 2: I now know how to pull the bones off a trout with the head attached. Thank you Ian. Tuesday- After a leisurely breakfast we took some cars back along the Great Alpine Road and walked 10kms back to Dinner Plain along the Brabralung Trail. At...

Having wanting to return to Cornwall for many years, I decided, b eing in England last year,  that I would walk the South West Section of the Cornwall Coast Path  from St Ives  to Penzance,  a 7 day walk of 63 kilometres, an average of 11 kilometres per day. Easy, I thought ,  having  regularly  walked longer distances with the  U3A  Hiking group over the p revious 2 years. I booked i nto a  self-guided  walk with a tour company that organised accommodation and luggage transfers and advertised groups of no more than 20 people, and  in May 2019,  set off to St Ives armed with maps, trip guide and a compass and whistle provided by my brother in law who was seriously concerned about the venture!  ( Forget  GPS technology!) However,  arriving at St Ives I disco vered there was no group.  I was on my own,  and on rereading  the trip notes ,  noted the statement “track well marked generally, ju...