Sunday, July 7, 2013

Gridiron Tramp

                                                          Gridiron Tramp

It's Saturday morning and I have just had the longest night of my life. I woke up at 5:30am to wake Dad and Mitchell, but Dad said go back to bed and wake up at 6:30am, now that was on long and painfull wait, but 6:30 finally came around I got to wake Dad and Mitchell up, they got up and we milked the goats had showers, packed our packs said goodbye to Mum and soon we got up to Flora car park.

We signed in, and soon we were off up to Whiskey Creek where my Poppa used to always stop for a drink. So we have a drink to remember him, we had an invigorating drink and I must say that mountain water is the best water you can ever get, not like this filtered town water.

We got up to Flora Saddle and then we soon arrived at Flora Hut and a tramping group were redoing the roof. They were taking off the iron and cleaning it all up so we just left them to it, and carryed on to Gridiron. We had a few stops at some streams, had a nibble and crossed the swing bridge.

Mitchell had a stick pointing up from his pack and there was this bar going over the start of the bridge, he went under the first one but the second one he forgot to duck and Dad said "don't say anything", he suddenly stopped and we laughed. Then we left there and tramped on to the Gridiron Gulch, the big entrance to Gridiron,  used to keep cattle in there.Then we headed on to have a squiz at the Upper Gridiron Hut, we had a look up at that one, all it was is a hut built into the rock, it had a potbelly stove, an awesome swing chair, an outside fire pit and three bunks. We got to Lower Gridiron, we had some lunch, and put our sleeping bags up top. Some girls came and two parents, the girls were really noisy. They made our Mahana girls look quite. Some other people came, a Dad and a girl and they were quiet nice. Then it came to tea time which was potato flakes, peas and sausages and that was scrummy.

To sum it all up we had a good time and the people were quite nice, we came home, and it was so nice to be home. We also had our nice Ginger Beer that we forgot to take up.

                                                           By Lawson

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