Last night was my final doubled up night shift. I think everything seemed to go ok...! So that's it, I'm on my own solo now.
I slept until lunch time, then after lunch in the mess here me and two of the girls planned to go for a walk.
"Ascension heritage" have set up a series of 42 letter box walks, with difficulty ratings of 1 to 5. You buy a book from the conservation centre and on each page there is a map and space for a stamp. When you get to the letter box there is obviously a stamp kit and a book to write a message.
The two girls I went with today have done just over half the walks, and decided to pick a difficulty level 2 walk, which the book said would take about two hours.
The walk was called "Shelley Beach" and involved a walk through desert looking gravel stuff and spurge grass first with locusts everywhere. Their little wings and quite sharp and they jumped up and down all hap-hazard ish.
After about half an hour we approached a lava field that I assumed we would walk around, but the book instructed up to walk through it. I thought this was crazy but for the other two it was business as usual.
I had never been on a hike before, so the fact that this was only a difficulty rating of 2... That doesn't bode well for me and the rest of the walks!!!
It took us about an hour to reach the beach, which as the name suggests had lots of pretty shells on it. And loads of dead black fish. And yes, they have human teeth!! Very small ones, but still gross!!
We found the letter box, had the compulsory selfie, then wandered back.
I was pooped when we got back to the car but had really enjoyed the walk. My walking boots still had the tags on this morning, and look at me now!!
One stamp down...
No birds? I was terrified when I did this walk. Bird-ageddon! xx
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