South Cape Track - Day 6 - We really are there

Saturday, 2 January 2021

So we'd had rain, endless mud, gastro and quoll criminality, what else could possibly go wrong? 

Nothing as it turns out. On the final day we even had sunshine (we realised we hadn't seen the sun since day 2!).  We had a pleasant and quick hike out along the coast then across the flat boardwalked valley to Cockle Creek.

Reading our minds, after a half hour wait Clare turned up with lashings of sandwiches, chips, diet coke and sprite!!! What a legend.   Shortly afterwards Denny turned up too, so after a debrief at one of the picnic tables, we threw our sticky bags and stinky selves into the cars and headed home. 

 So that's that. I don't regret doing it, but it would take a lot to have me do it again without some major track upgrades!  The campsites were certainly beautiful and I loved the beach walking.  I think the track was muddier than usual which made the going particularly hard.  It was really good that we all were about the same pace - we never really had to wait very long for each other (even when Rob had gastro), and we generally did less than the advertised times for each section.  In a few days I'll do a final post about some of the gear we had - the useful and the not-so-useful stuff we had with us.