The day started with the need to get out of a warm bed. Not happy Jan.(old yellow pages commercial) Jayne form Heysens Rest B+B delivered me a scrumptious breakfast. 3 poached eggs, bacon, avocado with toasted sourdough. A side bowl of blueberries and strawberries with an orange juice chaser and two apples. Wonderful value for $15.
Then with a belly groaning (I took the apples for later) I had to go down to the road and continue. The trail takes you through the normal roads, paddocks and steep hills up to a ridge line that then into the Myonga Conservation Park. Another gem hidden in amongst the farmlands.
I first thought I was just going to trudge along a fenceline but the track eventually winds through a portion of the park as it follows a creek line up to another ridge. From there its back onto the roads looking across the Inman Valley. The drop down into the valley takes you in the front garden of a house and then down their driveway. Some people are generous to allow the trail and the subsequent bums like me to pass within 10 metres of their front door. On the way down a driveway I gave one of the apples to a horse.
The trail crosses a road but I did a quick left to go to the Inman Valley General Store and Cafe and had quick coffee and bite to eat. Obviously breakfast wasn't enough. Then back up the road to follow the trail through a pine plantation.
Halfway up a hill the trail takes a left. I looked at it and said , No your not doing a Heysen to me at this time of the day. You see the trail went back down a hill and the camp I was heading for was called Robinson Hill and since I was already halfway up a hill I decided to continue on the track I was on and it just went on a steady climb to the top where I then followed a fence line to meet up with the official trail which of course seemed to follow the longest and steepest way to get somewhere. I felt a small sense of victory of not letting the bastards fool me again. But have I now really done the Heysen? I think I can live with it.
The camp site is a small spot of bushland in a paddock about 30 metres from the road. But sheltered and flat is all I ask for now.
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