Sunday, August 26, 2007

18-19th August: Royal National Park Coast Track

The 23 km long Coast Track in the Royal National Park has been on the list for quite a while. After a careful planning process we decided to do a car shuffle, parking Bill's car at the end of the walk and mine at the start point in Bundeena.

So far so good, the weather was decent and we walked past some pretty beaches.

Still wearing sunglasses, although the cloud was certainly increasing and the end of the day was appoaching rapidly.

One of the cliffs we passed was covered in a layer of fine sand, somehow stuck onto the underlying rock.



End of the afternoon, it was getting dark and it started to rain, and the campsite where we were supposed to camp was still quite far away. In the end we descended to Garie Beach in the dark and camped on a random flat piece of grass.

At night it started to rain properly, it wouldn't stop anymore before the end of the walk. We had enough to laugh/smile about though.





The end of the walk, we probably walked about 28 km in 2 days. The trip wasn't quite over yet though.... A crucial bit of the car shuffle plan went wrong, so we spent most of the afternoon at a birthday lunch in a pub in Scarborough before making it home, with a little help from Bill's friends.