Drove to Eagle on the Hill, where a dirt road meets the sealed road. A pleasant tramp down, conservation park one side, farms on the other. Conservation park is in this huge gully, great vistas along it. Road becomes the old bullock track and at the end of that can take either the walking trail down the spur I was on or the centre track running along the top of the spur. Took that, some pretty steep descents.
At places along the centre track can see the city centre of Adelaide and on the other can look along the hills face where Mt Lofty ranges meet the Adelaide plain. This used to be called the Adelaide Tiers. Looking along the Adelaide Tiers you see three great spurs while looking up at the Hills from the plain you get a false picture of looking like one ridge along the Adelaide plains. Then time to return to the car.
Oh fucking dear, that track just went up and up and up very steeply and the corpulent Monk figure had to stop and puff a few times
A good aerobic work out indeed. the bloody dog of course thought all this was great fun, running everywhere exploring, tearing up and down the steep track I had so much trouble with After rejoining the old bullock track, and quite near the sealed road (half a kilometer) the dog suddenly started barking and carrying on and on. I got her to come to me and put her on the lead and quieted her. Having a good look into the conservation park I though I saw a figure of a ’roo or wallaby but when it turned and ran off I saw it was a deer! WTF are feral animals doing in a conservation park?? Barking at game like a deer is part of the jack russell nature.
Weather was good for the walk, just right, overcast but dry, cool, not much wind. Track condition not quite as good as I remember it.
