2nd day became almost too long and we were extremely tired, We also learn the lesson that we need to keep up our walking tempo more faster.
We've stopped almost every refugio for refreshment, and been taking photos every time the scenery changes (Yes! I have a typical Japanese soul) But at least I have amazing photograph that I can remember these magnificent moment, and I saw this absolutely beautiful moon from our accommodation's balcony.
We stayed Munt de sennes refugio. Staff was very nice, nice food, stunning location and we just needed to sleep there!!
3rd day - we needed to walk through the enormously large and quiet filed. The field took us to the large stone/rocky mountain's valleys, we climb down the rocky mountain to get to our next destination, next to the lake.
Walking down the lime stone, rocky track was very difficult and made me feel scared. Small pebble are very slippery and I needed to concentrate on every steps.
Being cautious made my walking speed so slow again, so again it took much longer than we aimed for but after 5 hours walk, we finally came down and had a homemade sausage and vegetable soup at the Refugio.
Finally found the lake. Simply stunning and so rewarding.
What a lucky cows, who lives here.
As you might know, I really love Silvia Trkman and the reason why I own border collies is I was influenced by Silvia. Back in 2006, I started watching Youtube videos for University study break and I learned dogs really give me the best relaxation :)
While I was at Uni, I had a goal - "When I graduate from school and got a job, I will have a Border Collie"
I found Silvia's blog and looking at her hiking photos really made me happy! Hiking at amazing European Alpes also became one of my another dream! We can't bring my dogs to Europe, but we did hike where Silvia was hiking with her dogs! Dolomite in Italy!
Here is a photos of Silvia's Dolomite hiking:
http://www.lolabuland.com/2016/07/08/beautiful-dolomites/#
シルビアのファンでずっと彼女をフォローしているのはご存知かもしれませんが、実はボーダーを飼い始めたのもシルビアの影響を受けたからなのです。 2006年、まだオーストラリアに引っ越して来たばかりの当時、大学の試験や課題の勉強で疲れた時に、犬のビデオを見るとかなりリラックスが出来る事が解り、それから随分と色々なビデオを疲れた時に見ていたのですが、そこではまったのがシルビアのサイトと彼女が犬達とアジリティをしたり、ヨーロッパアルプスをハイキングしている写真達。 大学中、卒業して仕事が持てたらボーダーを飼う！という目標があったから、頑張れたのかもしれません。
その目標のもう一つがヨーロッパのアルプスをハイキングする！でした。 随分と実現までに時間がかかりましたが、やっと ハイキングの夢が叶いました。
Day 1: September 12th Monday
This morning, sadly we said good bye to Gabi, her family and Bono and Big Apple, We left the most relaxed and beautiful town Klagenfurt :(
People's life in Klagenfurt really inspired us. We are very happy to found the life that we are going to aim for! Gabi and Robert, and her children and dogs,
You are such a inspiration to us :)
We drove along the Klagenfurt lake, then drove through numbers of old villages with beautiful architecture, there are so many old churches on top of the hill and it was so beautiful to see the historical buildings.
We kept driving between the alps for about 3.5 hours, then finally got to the first Rifugio Prato Piazza. We really wanted to stay next door Rifugio, but it was all booked.
But no matter we couldn't stay where we wanted to stay, the location was absolutely magnificent!!! What a beautiful landscape. The first thing I notice was silence.
In Australia, we always hear birds sounds in the back ground - but there was no sounds at all here. Just you can hear those beautiful cow's bell from far distance and that is absolutely like an ambient music. Melt our hearts.
We did quick walk until the sunset to look around the area and had a early dinner, which was a little disappointing for Refugio's food, We went to sleep early to fill up our energy for our big day out!
9／12 5日間も滞在させてもらったGabiとファミリーに泣く泣くお別れをして、めざすドロミテまでは約 3時半程のドライブ。ドライブの途中 数えきれない程 丘の上の教会や歴史のある街を見る事ができました。 そして山道をぐんぐんのぼって、やっと ドロミテ山脈へ到着。 初めて見る巨大な岩肌 と大自然に圧巻しました。
第一印象は、とにかく静か。 人や車の音、鳥の声、風邪の音、全くの 無音状態。
たまにとおくから落石の音が聞こえる。
牛についたベルがチリンチリンと まるでアンビエントミュージックのように すごく心地よく 遠くで聞こえる。
こんなに心地のいい静けさを経験したのは 産まれて始めてかもしれない。
初日は夕日まで近所の山の景色をすこし探索、期待していた山小屋の夕食はそれほど美味しくなかったので、翌日のハイキングに向けてエネルギー補給のため早めに就寝しました。
10年前にあった山火事でこの辺りの殆どのユーカリが焼けてしまったのですが、その焼けた裸の木が真っ白に変わり、遠くから見るとまるで雪山、もしくは鳥の羽のよう。
とても幻想的な風景でした。
来て良かった❤ また来よう！それからHappy Birthday Dean san!
I hope you are having a easy week as we are! I am totally relaxed after the long weekend in the mountain! It was Labour day long weekend, (Monday was public holiday) and we finally did decent mountain walking!
Australian National Parks are not allowed Dogs to preserve wild life, therefore we always need to stay away from the most beautiful places in Australia since we started live with dogs. But Dean's birthday on Sunday was a great "excuse" and asked step father to look after them for the weekend, we dropped dogs there and drove 3.5 hours to the Australian Alps. Australian Alps runs between the border of Victoria and New South Wales and we stayed tiny little town called Harrietville, right near the ski-resort little town called Bright, close to the Victorian border.
I felt so lucky that we didn't stay at Bright, because we wanted to have quiet hide away holiday and close to the wild life. Gosh! it's insane that Bright became so so busy and popular town, it was full of people and car!! there were so many festival and event..
Our little cottage was cozy, very convenient location, nothing was broken or uncomfortable - there was nothing really to complain.
さて今週もあっという間に週末に近づいてきましたが、私達は比較的リラックスした一週間を過ごしています、というのも、週末本当に 久しぶりに2泊3日でナショナルパークへハイキングへいってきました。山歩きは思いっきりリラックス出来ますよね。
オーストラリアのナショナルパークはワイルドライフを守る為、犬は立ち入り禁止なので琴とニアと生活し始めてから殆どナショナルパークへいっていないのですがやはり 今回はディーンの誕生日を口実にして、ディーンの家族に犬を預かってもらうことに。
オーストラリアの本当の景色、本当に美しい場所はやっぱりナショナルパークに凝縮されています。 私達が泊まったのはBrightの近くの小さな街、Harrietville 泊まったコテージは本当に新しいし、便利だし居心地がよくて、まったく文句の付けどころがありませんでした！
But!! we finally realised that only one road that take us to the Mt
Hotham, where our mountain walk will start, was completely closed
between 8am to 1pm for Bicycle race event on Sunday...
So all of our morning hiking plan needed to change to shorter in length, and later of the day, and we needed to spend Sunday morning at Bright, looking at classical Car festival ...
It was kind of fun tho.
でもハイキング当日の朝、コテージを出発した瞬間、なにかおかしい。。
街が既にざわざわ、そして何百代もの自転車が次々にコテージの前を流れて行く、、
自転車レースだって！そしてMt. Hothamの登山口へつづく結一の一本道は
このイベントの為閉鎖。。。。1時まで登山口へ行けない事が判明したので、
仕方なくBrightでクラッシックカーのイベントを見学。
Finally the bicycle event finished and we started to hike around 1:40pm.
登山を始めたのはなんと1時40分。夕日までにどこまでいけるかな。。
Here we started hiking!
360° Spectacular view!
We just walked on top of the mountain ridge, up and down - for about 5 hours.
It was very easy walk, but view was stunning.
So quiet
So peaceful
So much to see and engage with layers and layers of mountains.
とにかく歩いて歩いて歩いて5時間くらいあるけたかな。。
比較的に簡単な緩やかな傾斜が多かったので思いっきり景色を楽しめました。
とにかく静。
とってもPeaceful
どこをみても山のレイヤーが続く。
