Day 9 - 13 January 2012

Today started at 8am. Off goes the alarm and I jump out of bed, full of energy, cause today we are hiking to Wineglass Bay and Hazards Beach. I drag Chad out of bed again, and we go to breakfast. Was yummo! I had poached plums and creamy mushrooms on toast, and Chad had muesli and scrambled eggs with smoked salmon. We pick up our walkers lunch, and we were off!

The national park is about 5 mins away, so we get our pass and map for the hike. Wineglass Bay and Hazard Beach circuit is 11km. A long way. See how we go.

So we get started, and we get scared, the first part is to go up to the lookout for Wineglass Bay, and it's all up. We start to think the whole thing is going to be like this and start to think we should maybe not do the big one.

Wineglass Bay lookout is beautiful, full of people, but really nice. We don't spend long up there and decide we will do the next bit and go down to the beach. This part is just as bad, only down, there is a lot of jumping off steps, it's super steep. This is also where we realise we are in for the long haul. Because there is no way we going back up this track.

Wineglass beach is really pretty, but again, a lot of people, so I hold hopes that most of them won't do the big hike to Hazard Beach and we will have it to ourselves,

So we walk across the ithsmus to Hazard beach, which was 2km. And I was right! We were the only ones there, you have to walk down the beach to get to the next track, and people were following after us, but that's ok, there were. It as many people.

We sat at the end of Hazard Beach and had our lunch. We were entertained by a little bird that I think was a Little Tern. He was diving for fish again and again. I called him Felix.

The weather started to turn a little cold, so we got up for the biggest leg yet. 6 km. it was nice, took us along the coast, we has fantastic views at some points, but by the end we were stuffed. We were very glad to see the end.

We are now back at Sheoaks. Had a cuppa and Chad is having a nap. He is getting old, needs his nana naps. We are off to Freycinet Lodge for dinner. I hope it's nice

I will let you know...

Over and out.