running 34:00 [3]
shoes: Asics Kayano 23
I had hoped to run the coastal bike path from Twilight Beach back to Esperance but didn't think my knees would cope with 12+km on pavement, so when I saw that the Great Ocean Trail was also marked as meandering north through the dunes from Twilight Beach to Pink Lake, hoped for some soft sandy singletrack and asked G to meet me at the other end. What I actually got was a hard-packed gravel road, which used to be bitumen but is now abandoned (maybe because it's in OOB due to the wind farm?) and so this didn't take me very long.
Therefore we made it to Hyden in plenty of time to not only admire Wave Rock and walk up on the top (the runoff from which was integral to the town's water supply until as recently as 2000) but also to check out The Humps 15km north - with aboriginal hand prints at Mulka's Cave - and do the summit walk there just upon sunset before returning to our accommodation which was much more comfortable and spacious than the caravan I remembered staying in @Hyden circa 1993 with Kay & co. Incidentally, Wave Rock now even has an 'airport'!