After a very humid night we were thankfully very dry in our little shelter in the woods and no critters large or small had tried to raid our meagre food stash, it was time to pack up and move on. It was even more cramped trying to dismantle our tent inside the shelter than it was putting it up.
The struggle was now on to get back up the 160m of uphill trail that we had slid down to get to the shelter. Probably the slowest 160m either of us has done. Once back on the main trail life was all peachy for the most part walking in beautiful Forrest along the scarp. There were some tricky, challenging bits where the trail was overgrown or very rocky or both. With the very thick fog everything was saturated and we were wet from the waist down. At least we got our muddy boots washed down.
There was another small disappearing waterfall where the stream goes down a sink hole further up the scarp and then spouts out the face of the scarp for most of the year but is a bigger waterfall for a brief period during the spring snow melt. We crossed another fabulous small water that was beautiful despite it’s diminutive size.
The fog got really thick and we could see no more than 20m in front of for most of the walk so not much to see or photo. On the road bits we walked with our head lights on and flashing so we could be seen. We could hear vehicles approaching but did not see them until they were really close and I guess we scared the hell out of them appearing out of nowhere as we walked towards them.
We got picked up and taken to our accommodation for the next 7 days as we walk around the Beaver Valley. We managed to get our laundry done as our clothes were very damp and mud splattered.
A couple we met, Ken & Margaret, in our first week and who are also doing an E2E invited us to dinner as they live 15 minutes away. What a fabulous couple and dinner was awesome, just a beautiful finish to the day. Sadly not so good a finish for Ken as he ran over a Skunk on his way home after dropping us off and now his car stinks like hell.