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Monday Apr 9, 2018 #
Bushwalk 6:30:00 [4] 19.0 km (20:32 / km) +800m 16:57 / km
From our campsite we headed out along Riggals spur, down to Lake Tali Karng. Did a bush bashing detour along the end of the spur to Echo Point in order to get a view of the lake below us. The view just showed that the lake was a long way down very steep slopes.
Back to the track and down...
The lake itself had a low water level and it appeared that there were no creeks running into it; both feed in creeks were dry. Despite this, the water was clear. It was a very isolated peaceful place; one which, if you had time, would be great to just soak up the atmosphere. Camping there these days is discouraged due to Aboriginal cultural preferences.
Next was the massive climb back up. We decided to climb up Gillio spur as it is the steeper one and our knees are getting old. So glad that we'd left our packs up top. The climb back to our packs took 1.5 hours, and we had lunch when we reached the packs. Then came another slogging climb up and over Spion Kopje, which had multiple 'false' summits, each of which was very rocky. I was exhausted already from the previous climb. Now we had packs on and were suffering from the old post lunch lethargy as well. From the top we had amazing views though, so the climb was rewarded. The walk back to the car took another couple of hours. Pretty tired! We drove down to find a car camping site along the Wellington River.
Back to the track and down...
The lake itself had a low water level and it appeared that there were no creeks running into it; both feed in creeks were dry. Despite this, the water was clear. It was a very isolated peaceful place; one which, if you had time, would be great to just soak up the atmosphere. Camping there these days is discouraged due to Aboriginal cultural preferences.
Next was the massive climb back up. We decided to climb up Gillio spur as it is the steeper one and our knees are getting old. So glad that we'd left our packs up top. The climb back to our packs took 1.5 hours, and we had lunch when we reached the packs. Then came another slogging climb up and over Spion Kopje, which had multiple 'false' summits, each of which was very rocky. I was exhausted already from the previous climb. Now we had packs on and were suffering from the old post lunch lethargy as well. From the top we had amazing views though, so the climb was rewarded. The walk back to the car took another couple of hours. Pretty tired! We drove down to find a car camping site along the Wellington River.