My parents live in Canberra, so for the
most part me going home is very much a city mouse in the country house
situation. I love it. I hang out in the garden, dig things, make a bit of a
mess and pretend I’m ‘helping.’ I also get to hang out with my parents’ wild
but wonderful dog Ellie who is the best dog in the world by a million miles.
Ellie rules the roost – and so time with
Ellie means doing Ellie’s favorite thing, which is hiking up to the Pinnacles,
a ridge of national park above my parents’ house in Hawker. On a summers day
the views go out across the entire Canberra valley and you can often get pretty
close to the mob of kangaroos that lives up there. From their place it’s pretty
easy to take a 20 min walk along the back of the houses or along the paddock,
and easy enough to extend that to a 40 min walk up the hill to the crest and
look down over the valley. It also makes up part of Canberra’s centenary walk
and you’ll often see people walking with massive packs in training for their
next big hiking adventure.
It’s a gorgeous place to go for a walk and
even though this trip it was foggy and cold I love these moments with mum and
dad and my little sister (and Ellie) and wouldn’t change the foggy Canberra
weather for anything in the world.
4/5 kangaroo glances
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