Weekending - four days in the Little Desert

We went hiking in the Little Dessert, and it might have been the hardest hiking I've done! There were no mountains, and barely any hills, just 76 kms of sandy path. called the "Discovery Path". 

Being outside in nature for four days was wonderful. Clean air, no phones and so much quiet. We saw kangaroos and echidna and lots of birds. In the park was lots of emu tracks, but we only saw emus when driving - both into and out of the National Park.

The camping was amazing - two nights in hikers camps, with no-one else. Both camps had what Leon told me to stop calling a "murder hut" - the overhang provided some protection from the little bit of rain we had, but the inside was quite creepy.

The middle night was spent in a drive in campsite, which was also very quiet and well maintained - and had so much birdlife and echidnas, wandering around, saying hi, trying to steal our food. 

In between camping there was a lot of walking, a lot of talking, a lot of thinking. 

There was  also plenty of time for knitting and reading. I made progress on Elise's Spectra, and am now over a third of the way through.

I started reading The Modern, a NetGalley review book. The main character's boyfriend goes off to hike the Appalachian Trial, and there is much thinking about city and country, what is wilderness and what type of person like taking hard walks in the bush, so it seemed appropriate to read while taking a hard walk through the bush.

It was a hard, satisfying, challenging, exhausting and refreshing four days in the desert.