Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Great Ocean Walk Day 3


Day 3 Blanket Bay to Cape Otway 10.5 (aka the low point)
The beginning of day three came with a decision point – these yellow flags indicated where you could walk a bit inland or along the beach and rocks – this usually required some knowledge of the tides. We opted for the rocks as they were far more interesting than sandy hills. After an hour we decided that these were getting increasingly dangerous and sent the alpha males out to scout ahead – it appeared that there was only more than the same so we backtracked (which is my favourite thing to do). So an hour later, we were on the right track to begin our 10ks walk.
Today was the day we headed for the lighthouse, I was looking forward to having something to aim for. This was probably the least scenic day, and hill after hill followed by 4WD track felt a little unrewarding. It was also the day I joined the blister club. The lighthouse was also unrewarding as it was $14 to go have a look. We had to satisfy ourselves with soft drink and ice cream instead of the beer steak and chips we had been fantasising about.
Cape Otway was a leafy campsite with what looked like a fire pit which we were more than happy to put to use (uber carefully). The guest book in this campsite contained multiple references to Koalas and their nightly goings-ons. At one point in the night I thought Cheryl’s snoring was calling them over.

1 Comments:

At 8:54 am, Blogger The curious chronicler said...

Oh no, a snorer!

 

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