I took some time out the week before Christmas to go down to Albany at the offer of some friends who were leasing a holiday home down there. The place is quite nice, and I think a 5 day stay for me is just right. I go a bit stir crazy if I don’t have work to do after a little while!

When I found out that one of the guys had not been to Bluff Knoll, we both felt it would be a good idea to take a trek out there (this was yesterday). It’s about 100km out to the Stirling Ranges where the mountain is so a little over an hour of driving. It’s a 3km or so trek up and around the mountain, and it took us just over 2 hours to reach the summit. We picked a great day to do it, it was sunny and all. Today is very very overcast in Albany!

For some reason, when we got to the top, we couldn’t see a sign to say “Bluff Knoll.”. I climbed the mountain about a dozen years ago and I know there was a sign. We went to the very very top, nothing was higher than us, so we certainly didn’t miss it. I feel a bit shortchanged not being able to take a photo of myself at that sign again though! Oh well, it was a good climb, being at the highest peak in the South West at 1.1km elevation.