Day 20 - Gunawarra Road to Yammanie

 Day 20 Thursday 6th May, 2021 29.7km

483.5 / 4615.4km

The early morning road

I had to get up in the middle of the night to put on the tent fly as a heavy dew was saturating me inside.

The walk was as expected with a plod down the road. I am lucky there is a lot of water about as I can keep a steady pace and refill when needed, as long as the cows haven't been around. When I say cool in the morning it is about as warm as I want it to be all day.

A lot of fish in that water. They won't miss a couple of litres

I usually walk in winter and a good maximum for this type of plod would be 17 or 18. A fast pace to keep warm, minimal sweat and low water consumption.

I passed a crop I couldn't recognise and a couple of fancy property signs.

A fancy sign. They grow cotton and avocados

Another well made sign

I did scare the crap out of a wedge tailed eagle, or we scared each other!

He was a big bird feeding on a carcass in the grass on the side of the track. When he heard me he took off across the road about 3 metres in front of me. No photo as I was busy watching him gain height. I reckon he was 2.5m across the wings.

Cotton

The Mt Garnet policeman was on his way down the road pulled up and we had a chat. A couple out to look after some cattle they have also stopped to chat. I am craving a fizzy drink... no-one offered one.

Bathing pool

The mid afternoon is warm but I plodded through to the guidebook camp. It says to camp beside the water which I couldn't find. I hitched the pack and kept walking and the next puddle just had 50 or so cows standing in it. So I kept going to the next creek which still had a little flow going. This meant dinner and a cup of tea. I normally use about a litre of water at camp.

Early to bed long walk to my food drop tomorrow.

The road to Yammanie