By the end of today I had a blister on my left and right big toe. We arrived at Moses Rock at about 8:50am. Unfortunately the weather today was not as pleasant initially as we expected. There was a drizzly mist for the first couple hours we walked. The disposable red ponchos I had bought some time ago came in very handy. When we passed the tour group with 15 walkers they referred to us as Russell and Russell!
We haven’t met a lot of people on the track. Today we saw a family group with mum and dad carrying large packs and the two boys with day packs. They had been on the track for 5 days, making their way north. There is not a lot of people who do the walk from South to North. The other two groups we have encountered are the 15 people who are part of Inspiration Tours and about 6 people who are walking on behalf of Mental Health Week, or something like that.
The family group we encountered encouraged us to walk around the base of Willyabrup Cliffs, indicating it was one of the more attractive parts of the walk. It was a little tricky making our way around the cliff face, the views were fantastic. In one spot there were workers working on a pathway below the area where they do abseiling. In my wisdom I said to them as joke, “how many years will you be cracking rocks”. It wasn’t until I had walked past one of the bosses and noticed that he had on his lapel, “Corrective Services”, that I realized this were real life inmates working on a community project! Steve could hardly stop himself from laughing.
As the day wore on the weather lifted and it turned out to be a very beautiful day. We had lunch in a rocky bay called Whaleback Bay. After lunch we had a walk for about one more hour to reach Gracetown. We arrived about 1.50pm and had to wait till shortly after 3.00pm for Nola and Kathryn to pick us up. While we were waiting we enjoyed watching the surfers in the bay, especially those on rather large boards who paddle out to the wave, even using the paddle once they catch the wave.
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