Mt Coree

After a weekend of Beer Festival shenanigans, it's time to clear the system a bit, with salad. 

I said, 'a bit'. We're back to the books and booze series: Richard Yates's Easter Parade goes nicely with a sparkling wine (50% Chardonnay; 50% Pinot Noir) from Heifer Station Wines. 

On a lunchtime walk I stopped to admire the patterns formed by flowering eucalyptus - familiar from many a 70s bathroom decor.

 

On Good Friday we went for a walk up Mt Coree. There's a wide path of red earth that leads through eucalyptus forest until one pops out at the top and surveys the land laid out below.

  

Located within the Brindabella Ranges on the boundary of the ACT and NSW, Mt Coree has an elevation of 1,421m (4,622ft). Before European settlement the mountain was used by Aboriginal tribes to hunt for bogong moths - 'coree' is an aboriginal word for moth.

  

 

 

According to the Canberra Climbers' Association, Mt Coree was the first crag in the ACT to see climbing with the first route being put up in 1958. There are now over fifty routes with names such as brillo pad, raining pleasure, memory relapse, thunk, catatonic, shadows of the evening sun, and mama pyjama. 

 

 

Walking back down 

Mt Coree - we were up there

We stopped in at To All My Friends on the way home for some liquid refreshment.

And it was, of course, fish for dinner. Baked salmon with roasted potatoes, beetroot, mange tout and walnuts to be precise.