Clear
skies, pleasant to quite nasty
Walk:
11km
After a leisurely breakfast, we drove out to Tidal River deep into Wilsons
Promontory to undertake some walks that start from there. Day entry to the park
is free, so off we went. We chose to do a walk from the tourist info centre to
Pillar Point which was listed as a 4km return walk. We made it to the point and
the views were pretty speccy. We didn't stay long and headed back. We took the
exit to Squeaky Beach. You had to take your shoes off to experience the squeaky
sound the sand allegedly makes, and as we had sand shoes on, we opted to not
experience the "squeak". Back up the hill, and whilst Greg thought we
should do the rest of the loop, which took in two other sites, we eventually
opted to head directly back to the info centre as it was long past mornos.
We thought G&Y would
have been there already, however, we were first back with 7.5km completed. As
we were having our mornos, G&Y arrived. They had their lunch with coffee
and then had an ice cream with us. Gunther announced that he would like to put
his kayak in at the river crossing as he thought it would be nice and calm and
he would not do any further damage to his back. Greg originally agreed, but
when we got on the road, the parking spot to climb Mt Bishop was before the
creek, so we made a detour. Wendy's feet were a bit blistered from wearing
proper shoes, so decided to give the climb a miss and Greg went on his own. He
said that he would run up and down in order to save time so Wendy did not have
to wait so long, so off he went. About 50 minutes later, Wendy decided to give
her feet another shot, after band-aiding one little toe. She made it about
1.25km up and met Greg coming down already! It was listed as a 3.7km one way
trip and Greg had indeed run/walked the climb - silly sausage! Whilst Greg ran
on down the hill, Wendy followed at a more sedate pace. Upon arrival at the car
park, Wendy was greeted by Greg, who's first words were, "don't go
crook"!! He had taken a tumble and badly injured his right hand and hand a
number of minor grazes down his right-hand side. To say Wendy was not impressed
was to state the bleeding obvious. However, she assisted in dressing his wounds
enough to get him back to the van park where he could wash them properly and
then Wendy would dress them properly.
Wounds suitably dressed, it was time for a read and snooze. Dinner preparation
followed, then more reading, pre-dinner drinks with the Fischers, then dinner.
As the weather forecast has predicted particularly nasty weather for tomorrow,
right on departure time, Greg decided to pack up outside, including taking the
awning in. The wind was especially nasty and very cold. We had dinner inside
the van as the wind was so bad.
Tidal Rive footbridge
Tidal River
Greg at Pillar Point lookout
View from Pillar Point lookout
Interesting rocks on Squeaky Beach
Tide marks on Squeaky Beach
Tidal River
Path to Pillar Point
Squeaky Beach
View from Mt Bishop
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