Before I forget to put this in... as I was dozing off last night there was lots of scuffling to be heard close to the tent. I assumed it was the pademelons messing around so I ignored it. But the noise was close and persistent. I saw a shadow of an animal right by my tent so I shone my torch to frighten it. Instead I just found myself face to face with a possum! Initially it went but kept coming back and sticking its head under the fly sheet. I eventually realise...

When I was about 19 or 20 years old I used to get a rock climbing magazine called High. I can still see the picture on one of the front covers in about 1995 of a sea stack called the totem pole. I was so amazed by it I always hoped I'd see it one day. Today was nearly this day!Having had a lazy morning and leisurely brekkie after a cold night (sleeping bag zipped up all the way!) I chatted to the rangers about walking and red and black spiders. I learnt that...