Saturday saw the team wake to clear sky, but not for long. After leaving camp at 7.40 am they soon rain into a light shower. With this they thought their already tough day was going to get worse!
The rain soon cleared and they forged on for 9.5 hours of walking. Had a few complaints regarding the map. Stuart a very experienced bush walker found Saturday hard. They passed running water a few times so could fill up their supply. Many rest were taken along the way as the steps along the route were 2 foot high!!! it mad it very tough. It was a great relief to finally make it to the camp site.
The team had a fire to relax by and enjoyed looking up at the milky way and over the lights of the lower Central Coast. During the night the rain returned!!! The guy's got away early then planned by 10 minutes which was amazing as the heavens opened up as they were trying to pull the camp down. So when they thought they were going to have a lighter load on Sunday they were mistaken as everything was weighted down from being wet. They left camp at 6.50am for their 10.5km walk to Patonga. When they reached the bitumen road they decided it would be best to follow it into Patonga rather then risk going down the slippery mountain side. It had rained on and off for their whole morning so missed out on all the great views they had anticipated seeing.
They arrived at Patonga at 10am and called the water taxi to see if he could come early as it was originally booked for 11.30am. He came with in half an hour and delivered them to Brooklyn.
They missed out on their fanfare entry into the pub as they were there first.
A nice time was had catching up with those who came to visit, even if we had to keep moving out of the rain!
Seeing as though all their gear is wet and or damp it was decided to take a rest day again today to dry and wash everything out for a restart tomorrow at Berowra Waters. Katelyn will join Ben, Brett and Jo tomorrow and the packs will stay in the car for a day so they can really appreciate the country side around them.
