yvalker (Melbourne2Mapoon): Peninsular Day47(Tue 01/July/’25)

Friday, 4 July 2025

Peninsular Day47(Tue 01/July/’25)

From last night’s campsite (99km from Bramwell Station Roadhouse) towards the Jardine river ferry [76km to go (with a 6km detour to take a swim at Fruit-bat fall's, which is 20 km away) at the start of the day]

Leave at 6am, & @ 8:30am first 10 Kms, half an hour break, off again 9am, and walk till 11:30am (done 20km, and at FbF. Where I plan to have lunch and swim, then) take off again at 3pm. to do the last 13 km.

Beaver & Bev from Warrnambool , been to the tip, and just come now from FbF offer me a cold beverage, which I gladly accept.

On their way to Normanton, then across to the Darwin Races, then back down the centre to Warnambool. Thanks. Fair-dinkum-ness and care in all your relationships!

Geoff from N.F.A., now on the road, been to the Tip, heading South. Stopped to have a chat and catch up for a bit.

Great time of travelling till your second grandchild Geoff. May you be a grand/great blessing to those children.

Gareth & Cara and 2 kids have just been to the Tip, & are heading to Bramwell tonight, and then to Longreach…

They stopped to give me a cold coke, which I drank gladly. “Cheers! To all that’s good & true!” Thanks you four.

Then a family passing me to go to Fruitbat Falls (FbF), stopped to say G’day & give me a meuslie bar to keep me going:

(Left to Right: Dakota (twin), Henry, me, Jason (the Dad), Hunter (twin)

& the photographer Mum (Reo), joined in this photo on the right:

Lovely. Thanks for the meuslie bar. They do help me keep going. Very looked after eh?

David and Celeste from Melbourne did the Tip, now heading down the centre back to Melbourne..

Stopped to say G’day and give me some change of diet: two little cans of lemon, lime, & bitters, a packet of nuts and some dried fruit, and 5 little cans of chilly tuna, and topped up a nearly empty water bottle… How good is that! Thanks. And how creative is friendship, even friendliness! Thank you!

After walking for about ½ km in on the track off the side to FbF, with 4 or 5 cars passing me, I decided that I have to stop, look at the car, smile, pronounce ( or at least think a blessing on them), be willing to signal and speak a request for a lift, e.g. even standing/sitting on the back of the ute. Then the third car.. Someone gave me a ride on the back of a ute in on the dirt track to Fruitbat Falls (FbF). That made it quicker to join the ~30 people swimming in the beautiful cool water above or below the 1.5 m. falls. I thanked them, and am grateful for them seeing a way to let me scum a ride in. I’ll try to scum a ride back out to where I left the trolley too. (This trip to FbF is a bit of a side track, to wash, me and my clothes)

There Paddy from the biker tour group who were also swimming donated me $20.00 which I’ll put to Movember, and a le Snack, and meuslie bar and a mate joined in with a nutigrain crunch thing.. thanks men!

Then I sat for lunch, next to a family group (left to right: Patty, Ernst, John, Jo, and Shay.

and they (mostly Nanna Patty), gave me some cold steak from last night’s BBQ, and added in the potatoes, and a bread roll, and tomato, and ham & cheese..

& I ended up doing a line drawing of Shay for the fun of it:

She was stoked. We had fun.

Jo, Stacey, Sasha, & Len going to the Tip too, but along the old Tele track, gave me a lift on the side-runners of their 4WD,

and then left me with two cold drinks to keep me going this Arvo

Thanks you four.

Got back to the trolley, and there is a note

on top of some goodies

Apples, a fruit box, some salt and vinegar chips) there for me…

and their sticker:

Thanks Karsten, Jack, & Zuri; and the creativity that put these together!

Darren & Diesel been on the road for a year,

was keen to talk and get a photo or two, & took two weighty shackles off my hands. Might even donate something to the Movember goal for this new financial year (at the bottom of this page) Thanks for your time and for connecting.

Trent & Colby (L to R) stop to see how things are going as they pass.

They are heading to fix a broken down truck which I’d passed soon after FbF. They offer to take my trolley back towards the ferry. I said I'll need to walk it, and I'll need my tent etc tonight, but tomorrow that might work.. They said it might depend on what happens with the he truck. I did say “l hope you get it going.” We’ll see. The road is getting dusty again.

Then 5 min later, from behind, I hear a truck coming and a toot of the horn. Both the ute & the truck! Good.

I remembered to ask & they told me that the ferry starts at 8am.

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miss ta walker?

The good that Jesus Christ called “God”

through hell & high water,

is walking, and has always trod

with his people, they’re his daughter.

It’s like there are two kinds of folk

who live throughout the Earth

- and I don’t mean the “sheila” / “bloke”

dichotomy, for what it’s worth –

I mean the kind who’re “open up”

to what they were made for:

it doesn’t matter: tiny bub,

or a hundred in the shade, for

they’re like God’s kids, his child-er-en,

his own daughter or son,

whether new-born, or two, or ten,

he loves them (and he’ll discipline

-not in that harsh, embittered way-

but still enough to learn

the worth of all they do or say;

they learn respect, and they won’t “turn-

-on ya”, and then just be diff’rent,)

they get God’s character!

They’re “open up” to love and when’t

causes pain, they still barrack ta

see it win. They have confidence

and know the mys-stur-y

of love that is it’s one defence,

won’t throw it out for just what’s seen!

These folk come in shapes and sizes,

cultures - all seem diff’rent,

but the thing that each one prizes:

's what eternity’s culture’s meant!

It means that power and glory are

by God owned, and on loan,

instead of them being "The STAR”,

they want God’s light of love more shown!

The others have already died,

some grieving has been done;

but plans of God are now being tried

to raise them up, each one.

Mean-while God’s still brooding, weaving,

walking throughout his world.

“Looks” have often been deceiving,

half (his grieving) has not been told!

Jesus told us his secret plan:

to hide within the weak,

the smallest, slowest, of human-

-ity’s face, is from where he’d peak.

We’re used to looking up to ’mpress

not down to beneath us;

so he who’s real, to real-ly bless

uses this ruse to bequeath us

his blessed image growing up

within our hearts & minds

and beings, that by showing up

will rule his world in ways divine.

I want to give more airplay to

the stories of these ones

who let God look on this world through

the eyes of his daughters and sons.

I want to walk just as he walks

I want to see as he,

to listen as he does (and talks),

let his story be told in me!

And to this goal I know I’ll slow

-ly keep on moving too;

a walker only, but I’ll go

on day-by-day walking with you.

Not only with self-discipline,

but with your true coaching,

one day, I’ll be the kind of man

that can handle man’s reproaching,

or human praise, and not become

sep-ar-a-ted from you,

and your care, in that christened ONE,

who walked the dusty streets then too.

Please now again, as long ago,

come walking in some skin

and bones, and let me see, please show

your world to me from eyes within.

(An audio recording at piano (draft 1) made Thur 13/03/2025)

Mentioning Models/ Motivations

Below is a reason, model or motivation (or two) for my walking. Some are contradictory, but may still never-the-less be achieved on a given walk; e.g. times of solitude, time connecting deeply with others may both be achieved on a walk with breaks in it & with options like establishing a daily rhythm of silence for the first hour on the trail of each day.

. The sound of the LORD God going for a walk in the cool of the evening. (on hearing which, Adam & Eve after their disobedience, instead of joyously joining in, went & hid. This was a sign of their real, previous, death. They were now in reality "The Walking Dead")

. Adam & Eve sent out of the Garden Paradise, to the East, to till the soil from which they had been made; & the son of Adam (Cain) being sent as a “wanderer East of Eden”. (cf Nerida’s sheepdog story) . Enoch, about a 7th descendant of Adam, even after the great disobedience, the death of humanity, who “walked with God for 300 yrs.” . Terah & his son Abram, are wandering Arameans given a command by God, to go somewhere in particular - along the lines of their current desires/dreams, though not in line with slumping into doing nothing. This response to God’s command turned their wandering into purposive action; it meant Abe was travelling until God told him to stop. Then Abram travelled down to Egypt & back, (to escape a drought), & was then told by God to walk through-out the land, to see where his descendants would be inheriting, “because I am going to give it all to you”. God seems to be into inheritances, gifts that you will pass on to others, where you can rejoice in someone-else’s delight. . Jacob, walks off hundreds of km. to run from his brother's vengeance, to his old relatives & safety, with nothing but a walking stick, & returns >7 years later with a whole family. . The “Exodus”- the WAY out of slavery in Egypt, & into being a free people under God in their own land. Normally a trip that took less than 2 weeks, but for them took 40 yrs, while they waited for everyone (almost; with 2 exceptions) to die, before the new Nation entered it’s promised land. . Immediately after their exit from Egypt, this people were to walk for three days into the desert to worship the Creator Spirit there. It was here that Moses was then told to walk up a mountain that was to all appearances undergoing a volcanic eruption, where he stayed for over a month, receiving the insight of the Ten Words as part of the Stipulations of a Covenant the Creator Spirit was making with this people. But “to whom much is given, much will be required”. Alongside awesome blessings for keeping their part of this Covenant, the people agreed to (about 9) awful curses if they did not. . Jesus saying to the 12 "Come & follow me", then through all the towns of Galilee heralding the announcement of the Emperor's coming near. . Jesus sending his 12, then the 70 (or 72), out in pairs, to cover all the towns where he was about to go (with no provisions). . The 12 disciples' trip to Galilee (after the resurrection), to meet up with Jesus, & get their new marching orders. . Jesus sending the 120 (10x12?) out accross the earth (into all the world) to make disciples of Jesus as God's Christ + Phillip with the Ethiopian Official.

The Israelites were not the only people to be given a land by the Creator Spirit, but (a remnant of) their oral & written histories have probably been best kept. The blueprint for the bones of an ideal society given to this fledgling nation involved whole communities travelling every year, the length & breadth of their country (admittedly smaller than Tazzy) to a central Temple to (not fake-worship & fake-serve another human peer, but to) truly-worship the great King who actually made all the land (as well as the sea, sky & stars in the wondrous universe given humanity). They walked as pilgrims, singing psalms of ascent, camping overnight, continuing on in the mornings until they arrived (admittedly nowhere was more than a few hundred kilometres from “the Temple in Zion”). This same people, within half a millenium of entering the land, were all walking barefootedly from Israel & their beautiful Temple, as captives & slaves (once again) to Exile in Babylon. The prophets of the Creator Spirit had warned them about reaping what they sowed, about God not being mocked & about his hatred of hypocritical “worship bands”, and these covenant reinforcement mediators invoked the covenental “curses” on this rebellious & headstrong adolescent nation. [though often with a strange edge of future hope for a remnant, who would be faithful] About a hundred years after the Exile of the Israelites of the Southern Israelite kingdom (Judah), the current ruling Emperor, Cyrus the Persian, & the next Emperor(s), in a bid to keep good with “The God of Heaven”, send a delegation of these people (from a few of the 12 tribes which together had made up the Israelite nation in it’s heyday under King David & his son Solomon) back to Jerusalem in their homeland, & to the work of rebuilding the city’s protective wall & it’s Temple. This journey is in hopeful “fear & trepidation”. Yeshua, as a baby, is carried to Egypt (& back) by his parents, to escape from the Emperor's representative in that area: "King Herod". Jesus travels back to Jerusalem's temple after the 40 days in the desert. Jesus being filled with the Spirit at his baptism & then sent out into the desert for 40 days [without food (& water?)] Jerusalem Jews (under Saul of Tarsus, after Steven's Stoning) travelling through the Empire. Franciscan Monks Celtic Monks Pilgrims in Spain

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