June 14 2021

Folks,

Are we just fleshy blimps in some meaningless stew of cosmic oblivion?

Perhaps,

It certainly feels that way, from time to time, Xavier

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Well, our tiny holiday to Wilpena Pound over the last few days is now finished

We got home pretty late last night

I was so tired I completely forgot about the Actifit posting time limit...

So my blog is missing a day of the journey; the 13th

I'm sure you were utterly devastated by my absence, dear reader

As if you're hanging out to read my posts...

😏

Joking aside, I really like certain aspects of the Actifit app

The UX is pretty clunky and could probably use a design overhaul, but it does the job well enough

The activity tracking is good information from a health and fitness perspective

The time limits are great for cultivating posting discipline

And the Proof of Activity concept is interesting as it anchors the content to a particular moment in spacetime

Bridging the gap between the real and online worlds, which I like

It was the combination of these things that lead me to install it all the way back in July of 2020

One day, I want to expand and refine my thoughts about the app in a separate post

Before I can do that though, I need to track down an article I read circa 2015...

🤔

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Well anyway, that was tangential!

I was intending to write about the trip...

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We awoke to this awesome location on the 12th

A few k's out of town

Brewed a cuppa on the camp stove

Then we decided to head in to Hawker for some breakfast

I had brought my bike along, so I rode into town

My darling drove the landcruiser

And we met up at the Flinders Food Co.

We shared poached eggs on toast and pancakes

^{_{The food was fucking magnificent}}

If you're ever in the South Australian town of Hawker and looking for something to eat, go there

We then continued on to Wilpena

And made a brief sojourn into the regional city of Port Augusta to refill our drinking water container

Here, we passed an abandoned building that was once a fast-food restaurant

I quickly became fascinated by it, and had to have a closer look on the way out

It was a "Hungry Jacks"

A franchise known around the world as "Burger King" instead

Arriving around 3 o'clock

We had a wander 'round the Visitor Centre and surrounds

The Heysen Trail... I'm planning to walk that soon

Unfortunately, we didn't have time to walk any of the trails

They all required 3 or more hours and we were running out of daylight

I'm really keen to get back there now though, and experience the landscape on a personal, perambulatory level

So that's on the cards for the future...

We drove back out of Wilpena and had a look at Cazneaux's Tree, which was just a few minutes away

Harold Cazneaux took a photo of it in 1937

Doing so made him and the tree internationally famous

I got my bike out again here, and went for a ride along a trail beyond the tree

It followed a creek bed descending from Wilpena Pound itself

I got some footage of that which I'll share once I'm done editing

And I'll link it back to this post, of course

So that the content is anchored to a particular moment in spacetime

It was getting dark by this point so we started trekking towards home...

Stopping in the town of Orroroo for a drink and a pub meal on the way

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I want to share with you this brilliant multi-tool before I wrap up this post

What a beauty!

It came with the landcruiser we hired for the trip

I'll have to try and get one for my future Heysen Trail walk, I think

Very useful for camping...

Though on this occasion, the only thing I used it for was cutting slices of kangaroo mettwurst 🤣