Day 40
30 km
Cum 854.7 km
Camped: Peaceful Bay
The rain and strong winds can totally FUCK OFF now! I have had enough of them!
Let’s start at the beginning. First hour and a bit were dry-ish. It was time to have my breakfast muesli bars and I waited until I was at a bench that had a lovely view. However I only finished one of the two bars before it started to rain pretty hard. And that was pretty much how the day panned out!!
Each and EVERY FUCKING time I got to the top of a hill or dune and had a nice view it was passing with rain and windy as hell! There were times I just crouched alongside bushes for a bit of protection.
When I arrived above Conspicuous Cliffs beach, with great views, it pissed down and howled.
I got from Giants to Rame Head by 10h30. Had a 30min break there and a snack. Waited out another shower and continued.
Walking through the dunes the rain continued in random, frequent, stop- start showers. Was very irritating!!
The saddest bit was that there was so many great views. Trying to capture them without soaking the phone didn’t always work!
The last few kilometres just stretched my patience big time! I though I was done with giant puddles and mud…but I was not!!! There were quiet a few! Then several kilometres of beach/ granite rock hopping and of course more howling wind and driving rain!
I was just too happy to get into Peaceful Bay caravan park at about 14h30.
Set my tent up- with the help of Helen, one of the Slower Hikers I met in Walpole. There are also 5 other Bibb hikers here.
This is good, as I requested help from them at the Irwin Inlet canoe crossing tomorrow . I have never been in a canoe and with all the wind today, apparently it was pretty challenging. Dave and Andrew, who were at Frankland River and then bypassed Giants are here too, as they gave up with the weather.
The fish and chips here are allegedly very good, so I ordered some and had a late lunch. Grilled …yummy! Dhufish , is what I ordered. $29 …so pricey, but good.
Had a pow- wow with the other hikers in the camp kitchen and made a bit of a plan for tomorrow.
