Grosvenor Street signs & Bandicoot plague

The signs to Grosvenor Street from Lovers Jump Creek in Turramurra....

Someone should Kur-ing-gai Council that Bandicoots are in plague proportions in suburban North Shore backyards. Just fished one out of the pool yesterday. Due to the successful fox-baiting campaign over the past decade by National Parks & Wildlife, bandicoots have proliferated. They dig holes all over the backyard and the dogs goes beserk in the middle of the night when she hears the bandicoots in the garden. They are also contributing to the spread of ticks, which will apparently be in abundance this summer on the North Shore & Northern Beaches!

The chase of the winged Bruja

A slow 15km trail run to Grosvenor Street return this morning led me to a track where I encountered a winged Bruja (Born to Run word). I went after it and the video shows the result.....

Awesome Mtn bike track hidden behind oval

Behind Golden Jubilee Oval in North Wahroonga is an awesome mountain bike track....see pictures below.
I saw many big kids riding these tracks on the weekend - having a ball! The second photo loks like a moonscape!

The entrance to Aladdin's cave

Only 1.2kms from my front door is the entrance ot Aladdin's cave. A return trip of 10kms. What a great way to wake up in the morning! Some beautiful trails hidden from view in the Kur-ing-gai National Park...here are some photos....

The morning we spread Dad's ashes

I had bought a new pair of Salomon S-Lab trail shoes & a Salomon S-Lab 5 trail pack as a present to myself and to be honest as a pick-me-up for what has been a hard few months. I was building up to the big day of spreading Dad's ashes and thought that a run in the sacred land between Pearl Beach & Patonga would help me cope, which it did. The run was amazing and I covered about 12kms of trails including (purely coincidently) right past the location of where Jane (Sister) and Mum had chosen to lay Dad to rest for ever.

Dad inspired me to run and have an appreciation for the land, the countryside and the native bushland. We are so spoilt to have access to all of this at our doorstep.

On my run I saw a Lyre Bird & several Bush Turkeys and some incredible views on trails that I have not run on since I was a kid abut 25 years ago.

I was so moved that I decided to run the Glenbrook marathon in November, the 6ft track in April '13 and then the NF100 in May '13.