Day 5 - Walbran Creek to Camper Creek - July 2, 2013

Day Five - July 2, 2013

     (Walbran Creek to Camper Creek)

Our late start this morning almost cost us.  But I leap ahead.




Our mid-morning stroll along the boardwalk brings us to the sign Kilometre 55.  Only twenty to go.

There is no end to the up and downs today.  We did encounter an unusual one though.  It was sort of a ladder and sort of a stairs.  Verity plans her ascent.






Then Felicity has a go at it.



 Most ladders go down into the valley, sometimes nearly two hundred steps, then you cross the stream, and then, right there, is the same number of steps going up the other side.  A lot of work to gain a few hundred horizontal feet.  But the trolly crossings are great.

Back in the forest there are still quagmires from last week's monsoon.  Felicity finds one of many.




Sometimes they just don't work out as well as you planned.





When the paths are dry and clear making way through the forest is magnificent, magical.



 As we near Camper's Creek I am uneasy.  We came along the beach.  If too late the tide will have closed our entrance to the campsite forcing us to retreat some miles and go overland.

Rounding the rock face at the creek entrance we find the path submerged. My first thought is that we will swim.  But I wade into the gap and it is only two feet deep.  So we hurry through and pitch camp, feast then sleep.

  By days end we are at kilometer 62 at the eponyous Camper's Creek. Only 13 kilometers to go.  And two days, well one and half actually, to do it in.