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05 Sep
West Coast Trail | Comments
Day 4… (August 29th)
We left Cribs Creek in the customary fog. The tide table and map information indicated that we would have to use the forest trail, so we bush-whacked on a path less than 30ft from the beach. The salal bushes crowded us ever closer, grabbing at Sarah’s Stix and making progress painfully slow. After a kilometre we...
05 Sep
West Coast Trail | Comments
Day 5… (August 30th)
Walbran Creek to Camper Bay was an ‘inside day’ (the forest – that is). Ladders, logs, ladders, mud, ladders, roots, oh, and did I say ladders?! By now we had discovered that the SideStix sand-feet were also excellent mud & root feet. The hardened steel central pin could find purchase in the most awkward places, and...
05 Sep
West Coast Trail | Comments
Day 6… (August 31st)
We had an intentionally late start today, leaving Camper Bay at 11am because it was only 5Km to Owen Point and the tide would not let us get the Point until 5pm. Camper Creek has a cable car running over it, but due to the low water level we were able to rock-hop the creek. The...
05 Sep
West Coast Trail | 1 comment
Day 7… (September 1st)
We were on the trail by 7:30am, half an hour later than planned, but on the whole we were pretty happy with our de-camping skills! The trail from Thrasher Cove to the Gordon River Trailhead was all inland, and the first kilometre was a brutal mixture of ladders, mud slides & switch-backs. I am still baffled...
11 Feb
Safari - Tanzania | 1 comment
On Safari…
After a day of recuperation at the Marangu Hotel, we were ready for our next adventure – safari in the Serengeti & Ngorongoro Crater. 6:30am saw us ‘wide-eyed’, but not very ‘bushy-tailed’, sitting on piles of luggage, waiting for the pick-up vehicle from ‘Bush Explorers’ the safari tour-operator we had selected. And so came the first...
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