Mountain Ash, Tree Ferns, Birds and Hills. Lots of them.

Oxfam training walk two started off well when BOM decided that the temperatures would not be as hot as the previous week. After a bit of humming and ha-ing we'd decided we'd walk another two checkpoints, starting from where we'd left off the week before at Lysterfield lake. Dean and I arrived at 7am as planned - because these checkpoints are inconveniently situated relative to where we live, and because Dean needed the car, we'd decided that instead of doing the car shuffle Dean would drop me off at checkpoint two, pick all of us up from checkpoint 4 and drop the others back to their cars at Lysterfield Lake. This also involved some phone co-ordination, which worked well.
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The route we walked is here, our team site is here and there will hopefully be some more photos (including the sarcastic thumbs up one, and some of us actually walking - heh) up soon.

Many thanks to everyone who's donated by the way, we really are grateful. If you're thinking of donating to the Haiti cause and would like to guilt trip encourage us to keep going, Oxfam are an official charity for the Haiti disaster. No, I didn't know they had official charities either, there you go.

[1] "That's not my car! It's a motorbike! It's too small and only holds one person. That's not my car! It's a ute! It's too blue! That's not my car..."