Day 42
20.4 km
Cum 898.1 km
Camped: William Bay
When going to the toilet last night, it was awesome to see loads of stars out and not many clouds!
Out of camp at 05h50 and headed down to two short beach walks and some granite boulders to get over.
Then there was a few hours of many hills , walking up and down along the coastline.
There were a few good view points but a lot of energy spent getting up and down !
The day was overcast to start with but no rain! Yay!
Just before 09h30 I got to Parry Beach campground. It was very nice, toilet and shower blocks and an area for Bibb hikers. Lady says that she let’s us stay free- very nice.
She also said that I can cross the inlet easily, even at high tide which was just 30min away.
So I set off on Mazzelotti Beach, 7-8km or so of beach walking ahead of me. The inlet was easy- peasy . My shoes didn’t even get wet, so that’s great! Was reportedly knee deep a week ago???
The first part of the beach was nice and firm sand. Then I had a break on a dune. To my surprise one of the surfers that was there, only one nearby, got out of the water and stripped out of his wetsuit . A bit of a show as he didn’t have anything on underneath … maybe he didn’t see me in the dune…or maybe he did…as he pranced around 😉
I carried on down the next half , but this was much softer sand and also dipping more. Was harder going for sure!
Made a turn around the corner to Greens Pool . This area has many granite rock boulders protecting the beach and little mini bay, making it wave free and nice for swimming. Popular tourist spot with lots of parking and toilets.
Funny enough its also here that I saw my 2 snakes for the day.
It was a short walk down the bitumen road before bumping into Dave and Andrew. They were waiting for their ride into Denmark. They had planned to do another 13km today…but luckily changed their minds. Esp with Andrew’s blisters! Said goodbye and carried on up the final hill climb to the shelter! More huff and puff but got in at 12h50.
Rusty got in some 1 hour later and I think we may be back to just us as the other couples are staying in Parry’s tonight. Having shorter days.
Boat Harbour beach 
Roo 
Plovers 
Greens Pool 
Greens Pool 
William Bay