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Deskbound says: Camping! Hiking! Other stuff that's not indoors! Regale us with your tales of the great outdoors, whether it involves being rogerred by the Scout Master or skinning your first rabbit.

(, Thu 29 Mar 2012, 14:49)
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Going down in the Gorge & ending up at the mouth.
The last time I walked the Murchison Gorge we walked from (I think from memory) "Z" Bend to Kalbarri - anyway it was about 60 km. in 5 days along the river to it's mouth in spring.
I was a member of the "Outdoors Adventure Club" at school. Before the trip we went to the local Coles (supermarket) and bought about $400 of supplies. Then we divvied all the food up and packed.
The school had a school camp which had (mostly past students) camp leaders who also had a license to drive the school bus. So all we had to do was convince one of them to give up his holidays and either come with us or do the dropoff & pickup.
It was a fun walk - highlights included cascading down some of the (still flowing) river on our backpacks, singing The Banana Boat Song ad-nauseum (the acoustics in the bottom of a gorge are cool) and managing to catch yabbies whilst keeping our beer cold.
We got picked up just outside of Kalbarri and headed off to the pub to tell our tales. We spent 2 days climbing and playing in Red Bluff.

On the drive home we spent a night at Cervantes near the Pinnacles where we bought about $200 of booze & $100 of fish and chips (remember this was the 80's - that means a lot of piss and junk food).
We always used to recompense the people who had helped us with a carton of piss (beer) and the bus driver and head of Outdoors always used to wonder how we managed to buy all our booze (us being clearly underage).
Put it this way - there were many happy endings to this tale.
Length? - 60 odd kays or 6" depending on your POV.
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 8:06, 2 replies)
"Many happy endings"?
Maybe it's a cultural difference, but to me that sounds like you traded sexual favours for beer...?
(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 9:31, closed)
Took you long enough.

(, Mon 2 Apr 2012, 10:41, closed)

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