This year has been light on big trips - partly due to a long overseas trip coming up.
However, over 2 days at Easter we got in some lovely day walks.
First section was along a branch off the Heysen Trail from the Old Nursery in the Wirrabarra Forest to the main track on the ridgeline at Frypan Hill and then back south along it to the Bluff.
It was a nasty windy day and being a north wind, the air was choked up with dust.
This detracted somewhat from the views as even when it calmed down in the late afternoon the range of view was still restricted.
The whole of this route is along forestry roads, so the walking is easy, but long.
Starting after lunch we were protected from the wind in the forest - which is a mix of Pine plantation and native bush.
The ridgeline rises in places to 700m above the adjacent coast and there are views to Spencers Gulf and Eyre Peninsula to the west and the mid north farmlands to the east.
We were windblasted sitting on the edge of Frypan Hill where we met our only snake on the walk.
The Bluff is the highest part of the range and is the location for a very large broadcast TV tower that services the Iron Triangle of SA.
There are also a number of smaller communication towers along the ridgeline that the Heysen Trail passes.
We explored around and had a refreshing cup of soup in shelter waiting for sunset.