Anne's blog travel 06-07

Tuesday, March 20th 2007

I wake up usually to the sounds of Rosellas chirping in the majestic Gum tree in the garden. Australians commonly refer to Eucalyptus trees (of which there are many varieties) as Gum trees. They are usually big trees (depending how old the tree is) with a whitish trunk which sometimes looks green in the rain. The bark strips off the tree is big chunks leaving the wood exposed.

Anyway, last week Nancy and Robert told me that the neighbors were going to take their big Gum tree down to subdivide the lot to build three townhouses. Since then I've been looking at the beautiful tree they were refering to and noticing that usually about 50 Rosellas are in it chirping away and it seems to be their home. So sad to think it will have to be taken down.

Otherwise all is good. It was raining Monday morning at 5am when I rose to prepare for Bootcamp. I knew we were supposed to meet at the Quarry and had heard it was always the worse possible training location. Also that if it rained it was horrible. The sand and soil turn into clay making it virtually impossible to run. Lisa was outside in the rain to redirect us to King's Beach instead claiming it was so dark that it would possibly be dangerous to train at the quarry. So we trained in the rain but on the beach. It was a hard training and she was sure to ask me today if I was feeling my legs. And I did feel my legs today. David the owner of the gym came to talk to me today. Saying that he noticed I was training hard and seem to have good technique and just wanted to know if I enjoyed training there and what I wanted to acchieve. They really are a lovely group of people at that gym.

Easter is getting closer. I need to either move or move out for a week of my accommodation for that period which makes me wonder if I won't go down to Sydney to see some friends during that period.

Nothing more exciting to report at present.