Saturday at the park
Yesterday I took G to Whiteman Park as has been usual for the past several Saturdays. It’s a good way to kill four hours, far better than I expected. Also it doesn’t cost very much, mostly just a drink and a ride on the train is required.
On this occasion, the Scientist had walked from our house to the park and met us in the village café not long after we arrived. This added a new dimension to our visit. We walked between the village and the Mussel Pool which is about a ten to fifteen minute walk for most people. We stopped into the Children’s Forest on the way and looked at many of the natives planted there. After the Mussel pool, e were on the way to a third trail that we haven’t tried out at the park when we ran across a kangaroo and a joey hopping along. It was incredibly exciting because we’ve never seen a joey with the other kangaroos. This was pretty close to where people were hanging out so I guess they are fairly tame, even with the little ones. I just wish I’d had my camera ready to take a shot but it was still in my bag.
We found the trail we wanted and headed off into that direction. It started off well enough, passing through a couple gates and then into a field but we hit a bit of problem once we started going through the more wooded area. There were spider webs everywhere and we kept running into them. It was close to noon and the light was quite strong, making it difficult to see the webs and spiders along the way. We eventually had to give it up because we were getting spider webs onto us, not to mention a few spiders. I guess this particular trail doesn’t get a lot of use because I find it hard to imagine there being so many along a well-travelled path.
We walked back to the village and left the Scientist while we took a ride on the little railroad there. I have noticed over the three weeks we’ve gone on the train that it’s gotten more and more crowded by the week. We had to wait a while for the train to take off. It’s hard to complain too much as it’s run by volunteers but it’s often five or ten minutes past the departure time which sometimes makes it hard to plan accordingly for things. There are two different loops the train takes and it’s possible to take them one after the other but time was limited and we had to get going after the first loop. The Scientist had meanwhile walked out towards the entrance and stopped at the lookout. We picked him up on the way out and took G back home.
