Day 55 Granite Creek

 Thursday 10th June, 2021 29.4km

1499.9 / 3599km

Early morning pack up

It was bloody cold. Beanie, gloves and jacket to start the day.

Today I follow the rail line through paddocks across Granite Vale Station. The next camp spot is Granite Creek the one where the bloke said there were crocodiles. The plan if it goes OK, is to get as far as I can so the Friday walk isn't long into Marlborough so I can get my parcel and post the excess.

The sun may warm it up a bit

The walk down the fence is pleasant and I enjoy it. The second gate has lock on it (tell Debbie) but I climb over. The trains keep coming and I get a small thrill when they toot acknowledgement. Still a kid I suppose.

Following the fence and train line

Some friends

The notes again make no sense when it states the track leaves the rail line. Well it doesn't and I just continue along the

fence. The recently graded track along the fence runs out and I have to crawl under a boundary fence and bush bash to a gate which I have to climb then I can see a rail crossing across the paddock which I head for. I catch up to the trail notes, just by a different route. Now it's down the right side of the rail along cow pads till I meet a fence and have to turn. The country is open and I angle across the paddocks in anticipation of the trail notes. In the end I walk straight onto a track across Granite Creek.

Granite Creek Evergreen

The notes say to head for the Evergreen. A name

Another shot up Granite Creek

they have given a patch of timber. I reckon it's just the trees along the creek. Maybe in my short cuts I missed something. The water in the creek is certainly green. I follow this track all the way through the property till I hit the road into

Riverview Station on the Styx River. Then it's onto the road into Ogmore. There are no shops or pub in Ogmore and in the end I just walked through without getting the camera out. The old pub was a mess with whoever living there leaving rubbish all around.

I then went as far up the back road to Marlborough as I could. Stopping on the side of the road opposite a dam.

an intereting bit of bent pipe

been threre a while

Memorial outside Ogmore