Day 4 Redbanks Gorge to Glen Helen

Mount Sonder again

A  good night’s sleep started a great day of walking.

Breakfast done and dusted we were out at 8.00AM in the bus to the gorge and walking by 8.45AM.
A good flat track along the Redbank Creek , twisting and turning through splendid mallee country, punctuated by a small number of ghost gums.
We set a good pace getting along at about 5 km per hour.
Morning tea off the track within a nice mallee grove in the shade, as the day was warming up.
Rocky Gap camp preceded a pretty creek walk and lunch in the creek.
The day heated up just in time for our climb to the lookout.



All the way we had great views of our previous days walk, Mount Sonder.
At the top all round views, back to Sonder to the west, Glen Helen to the south and onto Mount Giles.
Then began a long hard decent back to the mallee plain.
By now the day had heated up and the we had a hard final trek back to Glen Helen.
For some straight to the shower, others straight to the bar, either way we all had sore feet.
The evening meal of soup, steak and ice cream with blackberry turnover, the followed the long awaited Tuesday Cheap Film Night in which various members of the party presented their favourite film, as we passed Jaffas around.
David and Margaret critiqued the movies, the first being The Tempest, by Jim Alvey, a Shakespearean drama -which was given 2 and 3.5, respectively.
The second movie was a Japanese drama, The Departure, by Robyn Quinn, about a Japanese cello player who prepares bodies after death, and the cello disappears from the scene, given 3.5 and 4 with amusing comments by the critiques.
The next movie of the night, Sound of Music, a story of a nun and some sort of love story with some old duke guy, presented by Liz Alvey was greeted with derisory cries by the captive audience, as this movie was felt to be rather done over.  Scoring 2 and 5, what a softie.
Jo presented Thelma and Louise, a romantic comedy about two wild women of the Bonnie and Claudia genre. Margaret just loved this movie, one about women and gave it 4. David however was quite derogatory and gave it only 2.
Vicki presented Love Actually,  a soppy story about a single British PM who falls for  Bill Nighy drawing  genitals on a poster. The plot was hard to follow and I doubt it will score well.
Margaret was not impressed gave it 4 and David a 2.
So the winner of the night was Departures.
Then to cap it off the projector blew its bulb and there was no replacement, so a number of the audience repaired to the bar.
It was resolved to have another movie night so we could se those that had been missed.

Simon's thought of the day-Sieze the day