Last Day. Got to sleep in as I had 15 kilometres to do by lunch time where I would get to meet Belinda and Isabelle.
Got out of bed about twenty past 6 and didn't care how much noise I made packing up as the couple in the tent that had setup about 2 metres behind me didn't seem to mind making noises last night. The track winds through a gully following Aaron Creek and then climbs out of the gully to Cobbler Hill. It then heads back to the coast and down and up another gully before going over the hill to blowhole beach.
People fishing and playing on the beach. Got no time for that. It's a long steep slog off the beach. Then the track winds through some cliffs and private properties and some of the spots these people have make me a little envious. Finally there is the last drop down to Fishery Beach where I had a quick bath in a creek to try and get some of the sweat smell of me. The shirt was a lost cause though.
From there the track winds it way through coastal scrub In parts its sandy and it just seemed to go on and on. I kept trying to see the end. I thought I was close when I saw a Trig marker on a hill. But this is called Lands End and it's still 1.5kilometres to the end. I could see the ferry departing. The bloody thing nearly got to Kangaroo Island before I got to the end.
Then finally I spotted two figures in the distance. My first thought it couldn't be them as the sizes didn't seem right. Isabelle couldn't have grown a foot taller in 8 weeks. Then they waved. I thought that's them then. As I got closer I was going to take a video but I kept tripping on some rocks they had put down. Then Isabelle came running up the track. I had picked a Lilly from the creek when I had a bath and I gave it to her. It looked a little worse for wear but she thought it was special.
So finally I crossed the end. No brass band except the one that plays in my head. The last section of coastal walk is one I would recommend any one to do. Unless you have trouble with narrow paths along a cliffs edge. So it's all done.
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