day five airy river campground to joanna beach campground
distance 14 kilometers time five and a quarter hours graded medium
you have now reached halfway you've found your groove lifted by those thoughts today is the
day for enjoyment to acknowledge that you are achieving exactly what you set out to do
so last night my battery pack ran completely dead so for the next four days i'm now just relying on
whatever percentage is left on my batteries so i'm obviously quite disappointed because 70 if not
80 percent of the reason that i hike is to film it but i can't be too hard on myself because it's
a new camera it's a new battery pack i'm still gaging my usage which is obviously way too much
but i'm about to head down to johanna beach for the next two kilometers
so i saved some of my battery for that i'm just here about to have some lunch out of the
wind and then i'll do my final walk and reach the campground there she is joanna beach stairs stairs
day six joanna beach campground to ryan's den campground
distance 14 kilometers time 5 hours graded medium to hard
you'll be watched closely by the kangaroos as you make your way through the farmland
the theme of today shall be green hiking amongst walls of greenery and lush blue gum woodland
i just stopped to take my rain jacket off had two leeches on me one was like this big
a lot of things i can handle leeches not today now i feel like they're all over me
good morning day seven
rumor has it i was talking to somebody this morning who started yesterday at joanna campground
they said today is potentially meant to be 31 degrees so i'm really happy about that
turns out i was the only one that got leeches on me yesterday lucky me the chosen one
i stand corrected tim had one on his butt sorry tim i had another one on my shoe when i arrived
to camp yesterday but luckily it was only small I shall catch up with you when I do some walking
day 7 ryan's den campground to devil's kitchen campground distance 13 kilometers time five
and a quarter hours graded medium to hard the rewards for today's undulating track
means you'll get to rise with the cliff tops and see hear and feel the remote coastal sea
i think today is harder than yesterday in terms of hills it's just been
up and down up and down i just came up that hill
cameras never do justice of what a hill really looks like
just arrived at devil's kitchen and have chosen my campsite check this out campsite number eight
you get all this space get your own little table and then
then wait for it wait for it you get a little view like this and your own little seat
so speaking of campsites blanket bay is my favourite by far the others don't even come close
this is probably my second favourite devil's kitchen just because of my little spot that i
get the campsites are a lot more private than i thought they were normally when i think of
campsite i think of like one big sort of cleared area but these are really like
your little tent goes there your little tent goes there and yeah it's a bit more private
which i don't know what is worse or better but regardless blanket bay is the winner
considering it was my last night on the track i thought i would muster up the energy to record a
night lapse i got up at 11 pm which in hiker terms is equivalent to 2am i rose to find a wallaby just
outside my tent i scared it just as much as it scared me but to my surprise there was the
most beautiful lightning storm surrounding me the wallaby continued to munch on the grass by my side
i only had one hour before the rain started but this is what i captured.
day eight devil's kitchen campground to the twelve apostles distance 16 kilometers time five and a
quarter hours graded easy to medium adrenaline today could throw anything at you or you could
get thrown in the wind but the adrenaline of the final day is all you need to get there
can you guess what happened next
dead batteries okay to be fair i didn't really film
that much on the last day because the weather was
so i guess that leaves us to press the recap button
the great ocean walk eight days 100 kilometers apollo bay to the 12 apostles complete