How's everyone doing this Sunday? :) We'll I FINALLY went on my sunrise walk! and let me tell you.. I felt like I could do anything after the hike! It was originally going to take us 3 hours to hike up but.. lemme just tell you how the schedule went.
12:45 AM woke up. Drank some tea. Got Dressed
1:00 AM standing outside FREEZING winds waiting on bus
1:25 AM bus arrives (this time a BIG charter bus for what? 13 people? It WAS appreciated on the way back though)
3:00 AM arrive at the base of Mt Warning
According to the sign only "fit hikers" should attempt this walk.. but I saw a family with two kids walking up so I figured it can't be that bad.. WRONG .. kids can be considered "fit" since they have boundless energy. It was supposed to take us ALL 3 hours since we had some fast walkers
and some slow ones... but by a quarter of the way into the hike we had spread out a little bit that we went in three groups.. the fast the normal and the slow. I was in the fast.. yeah I know shocker hey? but I thought what the heck.. I'll take a challenge.. and sure it enough it was. I was the only girl in my group with four other boys. We were scaling rocks .. making huge lunges to take steps up and down then at the last 50 meters or so.. the Mountain is practically vertical so there's a chain attached to mountain so you can haul yourself up.. crazy?
a little. But I was the first girl to the top! For me that felt like my little Everest and we made it in two hours! Now what though? yeeeeeeeeah.. We were freazing!
the sun wasn't coming out for another hour and a half or so.. but boy once it did it was glorious! and once there was a little more light I realized that the "cloud" going all the way across the horizon was no cloud at all but the ocean! Needless to say it was beautiful and I'm glad I did it :) Enjoy the view! Ps.. for those who've heard of Fern Gully: the last rainforest... Mt Warning is in that animated film.. thought it was some good trivia.
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