Day 99 Wide Bay Creek

Sun rising in the East

Saturday 24th July, 2021 24.5km

2368.5 / 2730.4 km

Off to an early start. It helps there is a full moon setting early morning, so there is plenty of light as I'm pulling down the tent.

Looking across the valley

The day is a fairly simple day with a busy road walk coming up so I head off just after 6am.

The initial road walk back through Miva shows someone last night, threw out their McDonalds rubbish as they passed through. It wasn't there when I walked down to the bridge last night.

Quiet walking through the forest

The trail quickly turns down a country road and I enjoy a couple of hours of peace and quiet. Sitting down for breakfast I can hear the traffic noise of the highway, checking the map I'm still 2 kilometres short. A couple of motorbikes roar down the highway and I think to myself, do you really need the exhaust that loud? I thought they were going to come past me on the track I'm on.

After breakfast it's a quick walk up to the highway then the slog with traffic racing past. Not the worst road but I'm glad to get to the end of it.

Then it's clue deciphering time as I enter a horse paddock and choose which gate to head for with a couple of horses taking a great deal of interest. I picked the closest one on the right and guessed right.

Looks like someone opened the tree
back up looking for an original blaze.
There were survey pegs in the ground
and a nail driven into the centre of the
blaze.

The trail then follows a road easement across the hill into a valley. I can still hear the highway occasionally but it's very peaceful. I get to the end of a formed road by lunch then go through a gate still following a road easement but now just a two wheel track across farm pasture.

Finally I get to Wide Bay Creek and there is water running fairly clear under a concrete causeway with grassy banks to camp on. A good day.

I loved the walk through this valley

A continuation in the valley

The grassy bank on the side of Wide Bay Creek