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Fri, Jan. 18th, 2019 09:10 pm
Today it wasn't 40 degrees! This is noteworthy because it has been 40 degrees for four days in a row, and today it's bumped around between 23 and 27 literally since midnight. It's been glorious. Opened the house up when I got home and just blew all the heat straight through. I made it all through winter without using the aircon* and I was trying to make it through summer doing the same, but nope. Two nights ago I just couldn't do it. It was still 30 at midnight, cold shower and damp bedsocks didn't keep me cool enough for long enough to get to sleep, so fuckit, aircon. And again last night. Tonight I might even be back under the quilt again, omfg. I love a cool change.
I was up at Mum and Dad's on Monday and Tuesday night, who invited me up to use the pool. Aww yeah.
Also been keeping up with the fitness for the year, so that's an achievement already. Last weekend I went on the first of these--number 12, the Blowhole Beach to Marrano Creek walk, which I've been posting photos of on my Insta through the week. Picked this one first because I wanted to get the furthest away one out of the way first, and also it was 30 degrees at home and only 22 down there. It sure was a hike! The 'coastal walk' portion of the hike was 1km out of 6.5km, which I was expecting to be able to stroll along barefoot and just chill a bit, because this is South Australia and our entire coastline is beaches... except apparently the bottom tip of the Fleurieu Peninsula. It was a very up-and-down hike, not the coastal stroll I was expecting. Anyway. I encountered wildlife--roughly half a dozen kangaroos in various states of can't-be-arsed--and the views were pretty awesome. Because I needed the GPS to find the place, I did run the phone battery down to emergency power with still an hour to go, but it at least didn't go flat until after I'd finished the walk. It went a bit straight-line for the last loop but at least it still kept all my time. But yeah. Looking forward to keeping up with these! I'm going to be interested to see all these walking places around my city :D
Tomorrow I've booked my bike in to get its brakes fixed, after I shot them, like, a month after moving here, and I pumped the tyres up this afternoon. Those few 'walks' on my list that are, like, 40km long I won't be walking, I will be riding. The long ones are all pretty much flat, though, like Linear Park, which goes from the beach to the CBD (and Adelaide is a flat city, trust me) or Goolwa to Port Elliot, which is all along the beach and more typical SA coast of just straight up beach.
* except when people were here, because I'm cheap, not a tightarse.
I was up at Mum and Dad's on Monday and Tuesday night, who invited me up to use the pool. Aww yeah.
Also been keeping up with the fitness for the year, so that's an achievement already. Last weekend I went on the first of these--number 12, the Blowhole Beach to Marrano Creek walk, which I've been posting photos of on my Insta through the week. Picked this one first because I wanted to get the furthest away one out of the way first, and also it was 30 degrees at home and only 22 down there. It sure was a hike! The 'coastal walk' portion of the hike was 1km out of 6.5km, which I was expecting to be able to stroll along barefoot and just chill a bit, because this is South Australia and our entire coastline is beaches... except apparently the bottom tip of the Fleurieu Peninsula. It was a very up-and-down hike, not the coastal stroll I was expecting. Anyway. I encountered wildlife--roughly half a dozen kangaroos in various states of can't-be-arsed--and the views were pretty awesome. Because I needed the GPS to find the place, I did run the phone battery down to emergency power with still an hour to go, but it at least didn't go flat until after I'd finished the walk. It went a bit straight-line for the last loop but at least it still kept all my time. But yeah. Looking forward to keeping up with these! I'm going to be interested to see all these walking places around my city :D
Tomorrow I've booked my bike in to get its brakes fixed, after I shot them, like, a month after moving here, and I pumped the tyres up this afternoon. Those few 'walks' on my list that are, like, 40km long I won't be walking, I will be riding. The long ones are all pretty much flat, though, like Linear Park, which goes from the beach to the CBD (and Adelaide is a flat city, trust me) or Goolwa to Port Elliot, which is all along the beach and more typical SA coast of just straight up beach.
* except when people were here, because I'm cheap, not a tightarse.
