The walk today was a short one of only 12 or 13 kilometres. The end day is set so it's no good me getting there any earlier. I managed to pack everything up early though to beat the mosquito hordes. Its then a short walk across a wooden walkway through the dunes to Waitpinga Beach.
There was a lot of moisture and fog in the air as the sea fog had come in overnight and as the day warmed up it moved off shore. There was a walk along the beach and a bloke was fishing he had caught two fish and he had buried them head first in the sand with just their tails showing and I could see why when a large gull landed beside them and started pecking and trying to pinch them. The fisherman was about 50 metres down the beach casting into the surf.
The trail follows the beach then over a headland to Parsons Beach where two surfers were having an early morning start. After that it's a climb along the some coastline before the track headed back up through farmland and diverted inland. Balquhidder campsite is in a paddock visible from the road but just down a hill from a large shearing shed. I arrived before lunch and found nice spot in the sun that was flattish and setup.
The afternoon was spent cleaning and redoing the water sealing on my boots washing up in the creek that went past and washing my shirt. Another hiker came in late afternoon but we didn't talk much just the usual pleasantries as he setup his tent and climbed in and dozed off.
By the time I had finished my dinner and got in for the night he then got out and started his dinner in the dark. I try to get all the work out of the way before dark so I don't have to do everything by torch light. I had an early start planned in the morning so lights out was fairly early.
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