Went exploring this morning.
Was meant to be a run, but was in an old fire trail/mining area region. There is one main trail which then branches off to a few different spots, have done one of the walks up the top. Found another side trail that leads over to some houses the other day, but it was getting dark so I couldn't explore much further. So today I took that and then followed a sidetrail off that. Was pretty wide to start with, started running it but eventually it just kept going up. I thought it was going to intersect with another trail but nope. Ended up getting very narrow. Not particularly well used but there was a clear trail and some handy markers on the various trees to follow which was lucky. Almost got lost on the way back. But it ended up being a pretty cool little trek. Real rainforest area nestled into the bush, found some creeks and such, eventually hit a clearing and couldn't find any marker anymore.
Tried to jog back but kept having to stop to work out the direction I needed to go. Eventually got back to main trail, again ran up and to the left of a track I've been to before and jumped a gate, but I think it was just a gate to stop dirtbikes/horses, because the track just looped back around to another walk I've done. On the way back down to my car found another side trail which lead to what was a pretty well sculpted little bike trail, but didn't follow it. Hurt my ribs playing soccer on the weekend so ability to run was a little limited. But was still a solid run when I was going uphills etc and a decent explore.
Then I went down to my car, drove around the outskirts of this are to another side street and found a couple of other entrances marked "Abandoned mine site, do not enter" so I guess they'll be where I go exploring next.
Went down to the beach and has a bacon and egg roll. Beautiful day
Was meant to be a run, but was in an old fire trail/mining area region. There is one main trail which then branches off to a few different spots, have done one of the walks up the top. Found another side trail that leads over to some houses the other day, but it was getting dark so I couldn't explore much further. So today I took that and then followed a sidetrail off that. Was pretty wide to start with, started running it but eventually it just kept going up. I thought it was going to intersect with another trail but nope. Ended up getting very narrow. Not particularly well used but there was a clear trail and some handy markers on the various trees to follow which was lucky. Almost got lost on the way back. But it ended up being a pretty cool little trek. Real rainforest area nestled into the bush, found some creeks and such, eventually hit a clearing and couldn't find any marker anymore.
Tried to jog back but kept having to stop to work out the direction I needed to go. Eventually got back to main trail, again ran up and to the left of a track I've been to before and jumped a gate, but I think it was just a gate to stop dirtbikes/horses, because the track just looped back around to another walk I've done. On the way back down to my car found another side trail which lead to what was a pretty well sculpted little bike trail, but didn't follow it. Hurt my ribs playing soccer on the weekend so ability to run was a little limited. But was still a solid run when I was going uphills etc and a decent explore.
Then I went down to my car, drove around the outskirts of this are to another side street and found a couple of other entrances marked "Abandoned mine site, do not enter" so I guess they'll be where I go exploring next.
Went down to the beach and has a bacon and egg roll. Beautiful day
