I decided to start my visit at the top of the dam. So how to get there? Well, there are steps at either end of dam so I walked up one side, then walked across the dam and then down the other side. I counted the number of steps: there were 205 of them (that’s one way)! My stamina and stability are not what they once were, so I was surprised that I made it up. Going down was much easier. But I managed it. I must be fitter than I thought. I used to be a lot heavier than I am now. In those days I don’t think I would have been able to do it. I would have been gasping for breath after a short time.

Note the yellow sign at the base of these steps. It reads: “Please use caution on the steps”.

I spoke to the woman in the picture. The picture gives the impression that she was struggling on the steps. That was far from being the case. She ran up the step to about where she is in the picture and then walked back down. She explained that she is a frequent visitor to the park and usually runs up the steps on one side, across the top, and then down the other side. The only reason she wasn’t doing that today was for lack of time. There was somewhere she had to be. She appeared to be extremely fit, and I saw her later running around the plaza at the base of the dam.

Taken with a Panasonic Lumix GX85 and Lumix G Vario 14-140 f3.5-5.6