Late last year we managed a trip to Nowra and then Tianjara falls. I think we won the award for latest start at the crag, I think it was 6, pm, when we clipped our first bolt. Still it was actually pretty smart because it was a bit warm during the day.

We went to Hospital Rocks because we were short on time, and climbed I don’t remember what, but it was good fun. The evening light was gorgeous, and we were visited by an Echidna. To start with he was shy, but then he got used to us and in the end ended up walking straight over the rope bag.

After a nice nights camping at the animal park we headed up to Tianjara falls for Sunday, where we met Andrew & Penny & Tim & Tanya.

We headed to the Huskisson Homo and the Hill Top Hoods wall, mainly because it’s the first with a good looking descent gully. There was a big bunch of locals, who were all really friendly and gave us lots of good advice on which routes were good.

In some order we climbed Roger Bourne Identity (16), Bingo Wings (14), Cool Bananas (17), Little Miss Sunshine(11) and Trad dads can’t campus (20).

They were all good, especially the first two. The start on Cool Bananas is not 17, but still a good route. Trad dads can’t campus was quite good, though has a bit of a ledge which made for nervous ankles.

Andrew and Penny put us all to shame by doing the awesome looking Dodecahedron (22). I was keen to top rope it but then the rains came, what a pity!

After we all sheltered under the cliffs for 20 minutes, Andrew had the fun task of climbing the 22 in the rain to clean it, but I don’t think it was too horrendous owing to it being slightly overhanging and so mostly dry.

Owing to the rain we got an early start home, which meant we had plenty of time for gourmet pizza in Braidwood, life is tough!