Day 8 - 4th Sept - Fathers’ Day
Day 8 - 4th Sept
Father’s Day
The balcony of our accomodation faced the national park, which is where we headed in the morning. There are several recommended walks, and as a taster we chose the blue path - an easy 20-30 minute walk. The trees were mostly heavily buttressed natives, and there were many happy strangler figs adorning trees short and tall.
We learned that the section we walked had been on the cusp of being subdivided and developed back in the 1970s. A brief look at the history shows the natural heritage had been under threat, but fiercely advocated for, over most of its European history. Various passionate groups had fought to keep the building heights down, population capped, and national park areas free of roads. Developments had been stopped and thwarted so much that property prices were inflated beyond all sense - but the evidence of nature benefiting from the imposed limits was clear, and it’s something humans should be trying to do more frequently. The walk was well signposted, and Sasha took an interest in having the info boards read out, while Babulya tried babywearing Nastya in a Carrier. We missed the coffee shop by a few minutes, but obtained icecreams.
On our way home we gently accosted some tourists making rock stacks on the shore to inform them that the practice is not good for animal habitat preservation.
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