Day 7
19 km * extra for garage return
Cum 161.2 km
Camped: White Horse Hills
After a terribly cold night- confirmed feels like -1.3C- without much sleep it was time to head to the North Bannister Garage to pick up my food drop that a lovely trail angel dropped off for me on the weekend.
Before we left though, I noticed a small tick on my hand. We decided to try Tom’s tick freeze on it. One spray, but it didn’t fall off. So we decided to wait a bit. 1 hour later at the petrol station, still nothing. So we sprayed again. It wasn’t coming lose though, so I tweeted it out with my tweezers and got it all out!
Tom and Maddy came along to the station too, to grab snacks and a coffee. We each had a pie for breakfast! I also grabbed some chocolate and jelly snakes- my first this trip .
We were lucky enough to bump into Frank T at the station. He has done the track 15 times! So he gave us some tips and we chatted for 20min or so.
Speaking of track setters, there is a man who lives on the trail and has done the track 28 times now!!
It was a little after 09h00 that we were back at camp to head off through the track, as the highway was very busy. So we weren’t going to short cut along it.
Tom and Maddy were patient enough to walk with me today and we exchanged travel stories- especially South America. They moved quicker in the afternoon as they realised they were running low on water.
Today consisted of two decent climbs, which were done in the heat of the day, due to our late departure.
It was pretty heavy going, though the hills were at approx 1:10 gradient, so not too bad. Much of the walk was fairly exposed to the sun though today, and not many good logs to sit in the shade on!
The view from the second peak was billowing smoke from a prescribed burn a couple of valleys away.
I arrived at camp at 15h15.
Gillian, a 71 year old lady, whom was at camp with us yesterday, was also here. She has already done her end to end, she is just doing a section to check out the wild flowers . She said she marked out an orchid on the trail for us but none of us noticed L.
