Green valley walk

We woke up fairly early this morning to head for breakfast, and after that to try out the much-hyped TreeTop Walk at MacRitchie.



Chickening out of the long walk through the reservoir park, we ended up driving up to the club's carpark. From there, the hike was considerably shorter.

There was a fair crowd along the trail today, to be expected since it's a holiday. Mostly families with children or groups of teens-to-twenties. (Why some people dress in ankle-length jeans, elbow-sleeved tops and strappy sandals in this hot weather, and bring baby strollers along for the hike, is quite beyond me.)

The queue to get onto the treetop walkway proper was thankfully moving quite smoothly, but there seemed to be far more than 30 people on the walkway while we were crossing it, moving along in the inchworm-like catchup game more commonly associated with caterpillar legs and traffic jams.



J almost became giddy from the rolling motion of the walkway as people trudged across it, left feet following right, the sum of which was causing the entire bridge to sway rhythmically left, right, left, right. The heat didn't help one bit.

I didn't think there was very much to see, but then again, we did make a fairly hurried crossing. With so many people on the bridge and more waiting to get on, stopping to take in the scenery didn't seem like such a good idea, so we moved as quickly as balance and other stoppages out front would allow.



Clear! But little did we know that the trail back to the club's carpark would be longer than the trek leading up to the walkway. A good workout for a lazy bum like mine.