Training Log Archive: blairtrewin

False start on a run this morning (not too surprising after yesterday), but fortuitously the local pool is just across the road from the Murwillumbah YHA (an interesting place to stay if very much of the old style, with a bit of hippiness mixed in). I expected I'd be swimming, but they had a pile of flotation belts so I was able to water-run instead, which went more or less OK. Probably timed this well as I got the impression from setting-up activities that this particular bit of water was about to be taken over by the time I finished.

Spent the rest of the day meandering through the far northeastern corner of New South Wales, viewing some impressive countryside (some of it paths previously trodden, some not). Plenty of evidence of local non-enthusiasm about coal seam gas exploration, most notably the huge banner over the road at the entrance to The Channon (which usually rivals Nimbin for Australia's highest Greens vote) - 'No CSG Not Now Not Ever'. (It was also in these parts where I saw an ad for a Sea Shepherd fundraiser). Later you pass the demarcation line between hippies and rednecks (indicated by the appearance of bullet holes in road signs) before going back into Queensland via the Lions Road from Casino.

There's not much at Rathdowney and there's even less where I'm headed for the next couple of days, so I may not be heard of much between now and Thursday night.