Our Year of Discovery
TESTING THE HEART IN AUSTRALIA
Primrose Monteiro-D’souza, Chief Community Officer & Editor
was climbing back up from the Lake Cave in the Margaret River region. I remember wondering, as I climbed down the 376 steps, how I was going to get back up. I considered, for a brief, sensible moment, whether I should just wait in the visitor centre for the others, but I hadn’t come Down Under to not go down under (and no dirty jokes here, please!). Anyway, I did manage to get back up without my heart giving way, and, the next day, challenged my legs on part of the Coast-to-Coast walk along the beach. This time, my new Chinese friend Paul had to stoically help me up and down boulders that are said to have moved here from Sri Lanka just to test me (pictured), but it did tell me what I could do if I put my heart – and legs – to
