Rocky Cape Walk

Hello!
The other day I decided to pop a note on the local notice board for a hike over to Cathedral Rocks. It was short notice and no-one ended up turning up this time.
Jeff came with me and we decided to bypass Cathedral and do the longer loop up Blanfordia Hill and back across the inland track

Here we are all super keen!

I took the fisheye lens this time just for the fun of it!

I had my pack… since I am a month off my Overland start date I wanted to see how I fared on this trek. (A LOT more hilly than the river track)
I had a bit over 16kgs

And even though I am not going to break any land speed records, I think I did pretty well. Felt comfortable in the pack, the weight was fine.

The weather had been awful… I was going to test out all my new wet weather gear.
However… It didn’t rain! I had to take my raincoat off as I was cooking in it!

I love the views on this walk! I never get tired of them

Well, it didn’t rain but my goodness the wind was diabolical! Was as strong as the insane days experienced at Cradle!
It was literally pushing us off the track and at one point we had trouble walking DOWNHILL as the wind was pushing us back up!!

You might be able to see in the above picture all the trees blown sideways!

Blanfordia Hill is annoying… it goes up. You think you see the top and then you see another top. After that you see another top. I think this happens about 4 times!

Anyway, we finally reached the point there were no more tops to walk up, hit the inland track and started back

Thats when the wind got REALLY testy!!

Check out the waves in the ocean!!

You can see the white line on the hill in front. Yes… we were headed over there! Looks a long way in this image!

Not far from finishing now

Has an excellent wintery feel doesn’t it? Even without snow!

A bit of blue sky!
And what is Jeff doing? We spent some time amusing ourselves throwing rocks straight up into the air and having the wind push them about 5 metres inland before they landed!! You might be able to Spot the Rock – Still mid flight to the left of Jeffs head (looks like a white splotch on the hill) – as it gets blown well away from where it was thrown!

Yes. We totally know how to have fun around here!

Cheers!