What a view

Hi all , on Saturday Christine and Loretta took Regina and I for a ride. We floated our four legged feinds down to Foxground. The idea, ride Hoddles Track, until we reached Saddleback Mountain Lookout.

Christine pointed to some towers, a fair distance away, and way up in the sky. We are going there??? Sure are!
We rode along the road, passing some nice proerties along the way.

The road got steeper, there was a section where George and Nugget slipped a bit on the tarmac, nothing serious.

Upon clearing the narrow road we entered a property that has a public 'road' thru it. Actually it was more of a set of tyre tracks accross the grass.

While winding our way thru the more forested areas we encountered some cows, yay for Nugget! The black bull we saw had the shortest legs you could ever get on a bovine, with a massive bulk of body. He wasn't a problem, the cows behind a well hidden fence, above us , were. They kept up with us, too the point of running beside us; when you could see them, that is! Poor Nugget was having heart moments. They're stalking me!!!

After leaving the cows behind, we entered a clear area which had some holiday cottages in places. Some people must have mega bucks. The views were just inspiring. The top pic shows has Regie on George, Nugget and I in the centre & Christine on Neville on the right. Behind us is looking south. The next pic. shows the view to the north east, look closely and you might see the Port Kembla ERS Stack. We spent some time at this lookout trying to find familiar landmarks. Next time we will remember binoculars.

While on this flat plateau we had some nice trotting and cantering.

Back into the forest again for a while, some steep, narrow trails to negotiate, and then suddenly we had arrived at Saddleback Mountain Lookout! Unbeliveable!!!

After Christine and Neville braved the lookout platform, the rest of us joined her. Pic. at left shows Loretta on Roxy beside me. Bragging here I know, but I was impressed with Nugget, I asked him to back down off the platform, and so help me he did it perfect.

We spent a while enjoying the views, while Regie had us in stitches alternating between telling funny stories and cursing George; who being George, was obsessed with stuffing his face with grass.

Look how high we were. We had been discussing which trails we could see, trying to work out what ones we had ridden on.

There were a couple of tourists walking around up at the lookout. I am sure they must have been wondering where the hell four horses and their riders had come from.

A nice older couple took a photo of us with their own camera, and then very kindly used my camera to snap a good photo for the four of us on the lookout platform.

Once this group photo was taken we rode off the platform before any horse needed to do some fertilizing!! Nugget is especially good at that.

We let the horses have some well earned green grass, before heading back down to Foxground.

The ride down was just as great, surprisingly there was no slipping or sliding.

We got back to the floats late lunchtime, and after a quick wash down we loaded up and had a cruzy drive home.

Thanks for a top ride.