It was a serious raincoat on and off day. The wind made certain I stayed wet when it blew the water off the leaves and branches. For most of the morning, on essentially a very long descent, I’d walk in my merino woollen top. As soon as it started to dry on my body, a fresh shower stimulated its wetness
22 July 2021/Sunset at Blackwood camp site//Bamboo pen & ink, watercolour
Because of the rains, the bush, the scrub, and the tracks, were mostly wet. I therefore sketched primarily from the dry comfort of the shelters on the Bibb. There would always be a large table where I could cook, sketch and write, as well as some of these tables placed outside the shelters in the often marvellous tent sites. Most shelters also had two rainwater tanks
27 June 2021/The bush, sketched early on in the track. Jarrahs and grass trees on a rainy day//Bamboo pen & ink, watercolour
5 July 2021/View from Gringer Creek//Fineliner, watercolour
17 July 2021/One of the many pubs in the old coal mining settlement of Collie//Fineliner, watercolour
Wading through the Pinerup Plains was a given. I endured a muscle contraction in one of these and couldn't move, standing stationary in the cold water//Fineliner, watercolour