still in etna...

i've just spent the night in the hiker hut in etna with wiz, buttercup, ferdy, scout's honour & daybreaker. i caught up with annie yesterday arvo as they were leaving town. she unlike me seems to have mastered the in & out approach. drop dead too was through here yesterday (before i arrived), and the brew pub in etna was a bit like a family reunion...



these are carnivorous plants. i wouldn't have seen them but headbanger had gone further up the creek to see if there were any decent water collecting spots and discovered them... apparently the fly enters through the bottom somehow and then can't get out, and the plant's enzymes consume him... i say, leave the flies alone, get the mozzies...



i really enjoy walking as the sun comes up. when i start, the sky will be full of stars and the trees dark silhouettes standing out against them, and then gradually, as the sky colours up, the stars disappear, and everything starts to sort of glow...



these are not in the right order, but it kind of gives you a wee bit of a feel for the trail for this part... it wound its way through these giant granite slabs and fields of granite boulders... the line in the last one is looking back at the trail...