Great Ocean Walk - Day 7

Day 7 Devil’s Kitchen – Princetown

From the beginning, Shelly Bay, to the end.....

The Final Stage - Rivernook

We decided to start the last day nice and early as we wanted to get home as early as possible, it being so close to Christmas. The last day was pretty straight forward, with an undulating track along the coastline. We made good progress and were back at the car by 10am. The track again went on and on, and seemed to be a lot longer than expected! There is also a path through the wetlands from the GOW path to Prncetown that isn’t shown on the map, as we thought we would have to walk back along the Great Ocean Road, so the slight saving at the end was appreciated. 

We saw massive flocks of Yellow Tailed Black Cockatoos throughout the walk, I have never seen so many in one place!

It was lovely to be able to get rid of the rucksack, take off the boots and have some real food. A Coke Zero and Sausage Roll went down a treat! A quick wash and into the clothes we had left in the car and we were off to pick up our boxes and on our way home!

Back at the car!

Did we enjoy the walk? Yes, but was very glad to have finished. 

Was it what we expected? Yes and No, but there was a lot of walking where you couldn’t see the coastline and where you couldn’t see much further than the next tree.

Would we do the whole thing again? Probably not

Would we utilise the sites for a weekend? Probably

Were we impressed with the facilities? Yes definitely, obviously there were no showers as these we pretty remote campsites, but all had rainwater tanks, a shelter, lovely sheltered pitches, some pitches were a bit hard, but most were lovely and flat, and the toilets were drop toilets, but really nice! Especially the one at Devil’s Kitchen!

Feedback for Vic Park’s, cut the foliage on the paths before the path disappears in some sections! And we understand the thing about the tide times, but it did mean that we felt like we were on a serious schedule all the time. We were fortunate in that low tide appeared in the middle of the day and we liked to start early to miss the snakes, but you always felt that you had to get the beaches done and dusted just in case!

The beginning at the End!

More pictures can be found on Flickr - Australianminiadventure