To be honest I remember very little about this bit as my drowsy antihistamines were living up to their description. All I could do was hope in that in my last remaining moments of consciousness last night I had managed to tell Martyn what we needed to pack for the trek!
Anyway Ship Cove is very pretty and there were some info boards to read which Martyn says were interesting.
And then we set off. Up. I do remember that bit.
But then we got to the first distance / time marker and discovered that we had done in 30 mins what the sign reckoned was a 1 hr walk. Martyn was pleased by this. I yawned.
I finally started to come round enough for Martyn to feel he was conversion with his wife again at around 11am - only 16 hrs after the one tablet if which I'm supposed to take three a day. Even Martyn has declared I can just be itchy!
Rest of walk very very pretty. 4.5 hrs after we left we arrived at the Woolshed our first nights sleeping point.
It was at this point we realise we had sleeping bag liners but no sleeping bags - darn those antihistamine! Found blanket that'll do!
It was wonderful. This little corrugated iron shack with a wooden planked building as outside toilet and shower. No other people there except Adrienne, the owner, who was in her own private lodging down the track a bit. We had freshly laid eggs and still warm raspberry and rhubarb muffins bought to us. Wow. It was fantastic. Nothing but the sound of the sea shore, the wind and the possum scrabbling on the deck.
Unfortunately for the possum there was also a possum trap on the tree by the deck so we said farewell to the very dead possum when Adrienne removed it this morning!
Typically for us when walking somewhere that the views are stunning the cloud has come down and I do not hold out much hope for staying dry during the ridge walk we have to do tomorrow.
After two hours walking today we made it to Punga Cove where they did have bedding but we had to pay extra for it. Never mind. Oh and there is a wedding here so our planned dinner in the restaurant is out - but we can have a BBQ for 20 quid a head (can you hear my voice going up two octaves!) A quick rifle through out food stash eeks our meals another day - self catering it is- lodge tomorrow night after big long slog walk day has a restaurant, honest Martyn!
We are currently sat reading books as we got here at 1130 and have worked out that we've done in 6hrs what the book and maps reckoned was 9 hrs. This is making us feel better about our long slog along the ridge tomorrow!
If tomorrow goes well we might finish the trek in time to have a day in Picton at the end. We'll see.
When we left there was a guy staying in our backpackers who had done this walk in two days - bonkers we're definitely not that mad, besides it's too pretty to go that quickly.
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