Day 15: Dutchman Stern to Quorn 9.85km

The walk follows a road through the conservation park and eventually reaches an intersection with the Northern Boundary track. This is the same track that I left to spend hours stumbling through a creek bed. Not saying the road wouldn't have been just as taxing as they go up and down with petrol heads in mind. I am sure the Heysen people claim this is the longest dedicated walking trail in Australia. I can tell you there is not much dedicated walking trails I have seen so far. Either fencelines, creek beds, fire trails and station tracks. I think a walk trail is a trail contoured for walkers. The only trail I came across like that was way back at Aroona and I took that by mistake as the Heysen actually followed the road. Whilst the Bibbulmun also follows roads and tracks the trails between are maintained walk trails with switchbacks on steep hills or stairs. It will be interesting further south to see if there is any work gone on there. 
So I came to Dutchmans Hut. You can see where the effort has gone in from the volunteers here. This hut has power, flushing loo, kettle, microwave and a fan in the ceiling. Stopped for breakfast here and a cup of tea. Then back to tracks and onto fence lines to go round the south of Quorn where I could then walk back the 2 and a bit kilometres to town. 
Got to Quorn about 1 o'clock and when the caravan park says check in at 2pm or later they mean it. I dropped my pack at the door and headed across the railway tracks into town. I went past the newsagent and noticed a pepsi fridge and yes they had a pepsi max. Can be hard to find. Lot of coke but the pepsi rep can't be earning much of a living. Back to the caravan park checked in started the normal washing of all the gear and went to the pub for dinner. 
The Quorn caravan park is not bad. The ablutions are a little dated but they have hot water. The camp kitchen is top class with BBQ's, two electric hot plates, Kettle, Toaster and microwave. The laundry is well appointed and has a nice seating area and they also have a camp lounge with a couple of lounges and some games to play. Bunkhouse room was bloody cold though. Has some radiator heater on the wall that didn't do much and I slept in my puffy. I washed my beanie and that was frozen on the table outside in the morning!!