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Happiness Is The Road
We woke up to the beautiful mountain scenery and opened the curtains to find roos still grazing on the grass. This is a wonderful place. After breakfast we went for a drive to the Wonderland car park where a walk goes through the Wonderland Range to the Pinnacle Lookout. This was just a 10 minute drive from Halls Gap. This was a 5.5 kilometre up hill walk. It was maybe a tough one for Jay to begin with but she was keen to tackle it. We started off and it was a scramble over rocks at first which eventually turned into a proper path. It was fairly steep in places and we took our time. This was a very busy walk, the busiest one I've been on over here, and we saw loads of people going up and coming down. We got just over half way up and Jay was doing really well considering this was the first tough up hill walk I'd taken her on and the fact that the temperature was in the high 20's. She was putting in a valiant effort but the strain of keeping up with me was getting too much. The will was there but given the heat and fact that the path was getting steeper and steeper Jay decided to let me go to the top on my own whilst she waited, sat on a rock. I kissed her and then powered on to the top. The end section of the walk was very steep in places, involved more rock clambering and a section through a narrow gulley. The effort was worth it as the view at the top from the metal balcony was stunning. You could see for miles. I took loads of photos for Jay to see. These are a truly magnificent mountain range. I didn't stay up there long as I didn't want to leave Jay on her own for long. I powered back down to where Jay was. It had taken me just over 45 minutes. I found Jay sat on her rock talking to a really nice Australian couple. She had been having a wonderful time chatting to nearly everyone who had gone past. Everyone had told her that she had done really well to get as high up as she was. We walked back down together via a section called the Grand Canyon. There were some steep steps here which led down through a beautiful gorge back to the car park. After that we went to the Reeds Lookout and a short walk to The Balconies, another amazing lookout with a panoramic view. We both stood in awe at these lookouts breathless at the beauty of this place. This is the most beautiful place we have seen together. The trees in the valley had a blue haze to them, similar to the scene in the Blue Mountains near Sydney. After that we went for another walk to the Mackenzie Falls. These falls were putting on a great show with lots of water cascading over. When we got back to the camp site we got some bread out and fed the cockatoos again. A really cheeky one perched on the back of one of our chairs and proceeded to poo on it! We had loads of cockatoos around us again. It was so funny and absolutely brilliant. We also had some very tame kangaroos visit is whilst we were having our tea. One of them came right up to Jay and she was able to stroke it on the nose. What a wonderful evening!
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