Day 20: Sixth Creek to Cudlee Creek

Daily distance: 14.4km
Total distance: 274.32km

Most men on their wedding anniversary would arrange to take their wives out to a romantic getaway somewhere and have flowers, candles, and wines. Well not me..... Wake up in a tent with pissing rain, pack up and get rained on, walk uphill for 14km in the rain and wind with nothing but a tent as a destination..... boy is Dee lucky to be married to me or what? Happy 8th anniversary my love and I hope we have many many more together!

Now that we are sitting in a warm, dry pub that serves great food, looking out at the crummy weather, with a room booked and paid for, there is no place and no person I would rather be with now and have spent today with!

Todays walk has been the toughest for me so far.... why? I think because it started out with rain and everything getting wet when packing up. My energy levels were also very low so when we got to Cudlee Creek there was no other option than to che k in for the night!

The weather today has been awful with hectic winds trying to blow us off the slopes, freezing cold and rain. The hills were also not fun and never seemed to stop. If we had been seen by anybody on trail today they would have got a huge fright probably thinking they were going to be attacked by 2 hunch back monsters with our ponchos on billowing in the wind.

To cut a long story short we took the alternate route and went into the "metropolis" of Cudlee and stopped at THE pub-restuarant-tearoom-information centre-caravan park, and booked a room. We have now washed clothes, bodies, drying tent and everything else with the aircon set to 35 degrees and absolutely loving it! Back in the all-in-one having a bottle of wine and a feed.