Daily walk and scavenger hunt

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

My step count today is 11,875 but I just use my phone so it doesn't record walking around the house etc.. only when I am walking to places.

Can we see a picture of Spider, I want him to be a scavenger hunt find.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Spider is an unusual name for a cat. Is there a story behind it?
Awesome pics! If I ever win in the lottery, I'm sure to visit =) I love the sea (propably because I live in the mountains, far away from the coast )

 

[Miss Chicken]

It was only 9.5C when I headed out this morning which is certainly different from a high of 36C which we got on Sunday.. Have only managed 9200 steps so far today.

My Spider is so named for the way he used to scamper under the wardrobe when we first got him as a kitten. I said he looked like a big, hairy spider not a kitten. I also like spiders. He used to be fatter but he lost a lot of weight when he developed diabetes.

 

[tharpdevenport]

I scavenge for money when I walk. On a good day I might find fifty cents. One day I found a twenty dollar bill.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Inspired by this thread I added another lap to my usual vertical hike and did 11,230 steps early this morning. Should be a few thousand more by tonight.

 

[Miss Chicken]

My longest walk in the last few years was 20 km (28,596 steps) on October 2015. I don’t plan to ever walk that far again. I did walk between 25 and 26 km (16 Miles) in a walkathon when I was in grade six.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I was averaging 24k steps a day when I was in Japan for 2 weeks, no wonder I had blisters. It's incredible how much walking you do when in a new place. One reason I'm trying to get more in walking shape is because I hope to go on some actual tiny hikes if I'm in Korea this year, I don't want to be panting along behind my much older relatives who race up the hiking trails lol.

I always try and walk at a pace just past comfort level, as if I thought I had left a bit late for the train. I like walking up hills and will power walk up them for I guess what approaches a workout. Heart rate is up at any rate.

The real challenge will be keeping it up in winter.. I'm going to get a good all over poncho thing and I guess wear old runners.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Just over 15000 steps today which was walking to catch the bus, and then going over to the CBD and walking around the wharf and Battery Point.

I walked by my 4 x great grandmother’s headstone which is in the wall near the Supreme Court. The stone say she was 30 when she died but she was actually 34. She was christened in Sydney in 1796, the daughter of Third Fleet convict, John Wood. She and her husband, Daniel Pegg, moved to Van Dieman’s Land in 1821 after Daniel got his ticket of leave.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I managed 103;000 step in the week just gone. Yah, but I won’t be doing that every week.

I am continuing to fill my Pocket Scavenger. One of the entries is for a found note and I found an old postcard during my Battery Point walk on Friday and today I decided to photocopy it and use it as found note.

Birds I have taken photos of so far

Galah
Masked lapwing (plover)
Silver gull
Pacific gull
Australian magpie
Sooty oystercatcher
Common bronzewing
Little pied cormorant

Some of this photos have been taken at a distance and therefore are not very good.

BTW teacake, when do you leave to go to Korea?

 

[Avro Arrow]

One of the entries is for a found note and I found an old postcard during my Battery Point walk on Friday and today I decided to photocopy it and use it as found note.

If you don't mind me asking, when you say "found", do you mean you found it in some kind of antique shop or something? I just wouldn't expect a postcard from 1938 to be just lying around in a park, so I'm wondering how you came across it? Just curious.

 

[Miss Chicken]

Yes, in an antique shop. I should have made that clear.

 

[Finn]

Awesome pictures. I need to get myself back to walking around. I could take pictures of Grackles, Mockingbirds and Cardinals. I enjoy seeing the coots on the Colorado River (Texas', not the famous one further out west).

 

[Owain Taggart]

My longest walk in the last few years was 20 km (28,596 steps) on October 2015. I don’t plan to ever walk that far again.

I know the feeling. This summer I hiked the Iceberg Lake trail at Glacier National Park, 16km round trip. Initially, it doesn't seem seeing that far as the sign only mentions a single-digit distance of 9km, but then you get there and realize you have to walk the whole way back. It's not a particularly grueling hike, but it was the distance that had my feet feeling like they were on fire by the time we were back down. But totally worth it. You tend to completely forget everything when surrounded by such beauty.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

It'd be interesting to learn what caused Dick's bellyaches and whether his doc could heal him. And was there a solution to Nick's dental problems? Did they marry? Did they survive the war? And what happened to the laughing dentist? After all, dentists with a sense of humour are a rare species.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I doubt that Dick and Nick married seeing they were friends back in 1938. It is a terrific card. I will go back to the antique shop on Friday and look to see if there are any more cards sent by Nick. I do have another card by him but it is not as interesting.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I went back to the antique shop to buy three more postcards, all sent by Nick/y in 1938. The woman in the shop told me that she had thought that Nick was a guy until she found one of the postcards signed ‘your loving aunt Nicky’.

As Nicky was in a nursing home I assumed that she was quite elderly. However one of the cards I got today states that ‘The Prisoner of Zenda’ was one of her favourite books that she had read many time, the first time when she was 14. The POZ was publisted in 1894 meaning she no more that 58 when she sent the cards.

I also pick up a couple of cheap foreign banknotes from another shop to put in my Pocket Scavenger on the ‘A Form of Currency’ page.