Daily distance: 32.2km
Total distance: 350.12km
Nearly froze my whats-its off last night! This morning was no different when we set off but at least we were dry and had a dry tent. The kids were also quiet which made me want to go jump up and down and shout as loud as I could in their camp.... payback.
It was a beautiful day when we set off down the hill towards the forestry headquarters with bright early morning sunshine glimmering off the dew. The headquarters was a lot closer than I had anticipated so we got there before anybody could take our money for camping there yesterday. Ah well I guess we'll just pay double next time!
We zipped through the HQ grounds after a couple of "selfies" in thier windows, onto farm roads, through paddocks with cows and sheep onto the hills. Always, onto the hills....... A couple of hours in, we left the roads and turned into the Jenkins Trail area and headed up into some really very nice hilly eucalyptus 'bush' country. Emu-Wren....Tick.... A map at the trail head gave us a good overall veiw of what distance we have walked so far which made us feel better about the whole thing. The trail took us over a steep mountain where gold mining had taken place in the 1800 and down the other side into the SA Forestry plantations again. As the weather was great the plantations did not seem so bad and the walking was good cause it was cold.
We stopped for a bite to eat on the slope of a hill at 16.5km. I was suprised at how good I was feeling at that stage and just hoped it carried on that way.. our little picnic was great with crackers, vegiemiet, cheese and salami. This was topped off with a fruit and nut trail mix and my very own favourite, cadbury milk chocolate. Who said we couldn't eat well?
In the afternoon we entered the wine area called the Barossa, not the Barossa Valley yet but just on the outskirts. Come late afternoon with the sun going down we had only a short distance to go to our camp.... well so we thought.... until we found out the camp was not there anymore! Hhmm.... sun down and still 3km to go after 10 hours of walking already. The last 2km were in the dark so I cannot tell you what it looked like except it was felled piine plantation being, so not that bad to miss!
We found the Rossiters hut we were looking for by GPS, only to fnd it padlocked closed. No worries we just moved the table on the veranda and have put up our tent here. Also put up a wind screen so hopefully tonight will be warmer.
Tomorrow we walk into the town of Tanunda, and get meet by Jeff. Dee will be leaving me for the next week or so to go spend time with Belinda. Yip, sad I know! Today we walked our biggest distance of 32.2km and have walked a total 350km in 3 weeks together and absolutely loved every minute of it. I will miss her, but take comfort in the thaught she is spending time with her daughter and that she will be back.... however, to be replaced by Jeff-fa-fa.. mmmm I dunno?
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