• Topic 8 - Exercise 1

    Posted on October 8th, 2009, 9:46 pm by admin

    The 30-minute walk

    Take a break and go a walk for 15-30 minutes.
    Come back to the computer and begin writing a short narrative on the experience.

    I walk often through the bushland area close to our home. My walks change with the mood of the bush itself and these are often linked to the weather.  On quiet days the bushland can be a place of solitude and reflection with any movement being quite startling. When the weather is wilder the bush seems to come alive with the sights and sounds of movement from all directions - a stark contrast.

    From the moment my walk began, it was a busy one with many encounters along the way.  Like the distinctive smell that was lingering in the first few steps of my walk into the bush. There has been a lot of rain over the last few weeks with the latest shower about an hour before my walk. It gave the bushland a familiar, distinctive smell, something like a fresh mix of eucalyptus and rich earth. A favourite smell that is similar throughout the bushland I have walked in.

    The variety of life in this place never ceases to amaze me.  There were parrots moving between the trees and the ground as they obviously searched for some food and I stopped to watch them for a few minutes. As I watched, small yellow finches landed in a group and worked systematically through the leaves and twigs beneath the trees searching out bugs.

    This local bush is home to a variety of larger animals as well and I have often seen kangaroos and have heard about a family of emus living in the area. Today I found a couple of black faced wallabies as they browsed on some of the lower branches of the eucalypts. These wallabies are cheeky and will often come close to our house. They seemed happy for me to be in their environment this time and I sat on a large fallen log to watch them at length.

    The weather began to close in as I wandered back down the track on the way back. The sound of the wind through the trees was building and the sky was getting darker. I’d been distracted by watching what was going on around me so, thankfully hadn’t walked far and walked down the driveway just as the first drops of rain began to fall.

     

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