The Great Ocean Walk - Johanna Beach to Ryan's Den - Day 6

Again a lovely morning to start walking. Not too hot or cold. We got going at about 8.20am for our 14km walk through medium to hard terrain. That said the walking was pretty relaxed and not too hard. The days walking would take us fro Johanna Beach through to Ryan's Den. Along the way there some really interesting features such as the pirate offering clean water to walkers and this little beach house tucked away on Milanesia Beach.

The walk out from Johanna beach took us past some very nice farm land with this great looking designer house tucked away just behind Johanna beach. We saw some large grey roos lazing in the sun.

We followed the road for some way before it turned into a private road called Milanesia Track that before leading us to the beach named after the track. Before reaching the track we found a old wooden boat with its stern stuck in the ground and a rather friendly pirate manikin offering free clean water to travellers. The house behind the pirate was a beautifully designed mud brick house that would have had spectacular views from the coast line. 

The track was a private 4wd drive track, at the end of the road we reached the beach and tucked around the corner on a nice bit grassy patch was an old stone beach house which looked something like you would find in the old whaling days. It was whitewashed and would have had pretty basic facilities being fully self sufficient.

We had a pleasant lunch on the beach and we did some exploring. Cam found a small seal lazing in the sun which then took off into the water after been disturbed. We had about a 4 to 5km hike ahead of use to reach our next camp site at Ryan's Den.

Th track was up and down with an amazing set of stairs which would have been about 7 stories high. With our backpacks it was certainly a challenge. Peter and Chis has a small black snake slither between them on the track. The variation in the vegetation was a highlight, walking through grassy areas, through to rainforest and then into Melaleuca forests. The blackberries seemed to be a bot out of control as well as other weeds in this area.

Our camp site was quite pleasant with a short climb to a great look out looking east and west for great sun sets and sun rises. As the sun set when we looked to the East we could see Cape Otways light house ruby light flashing.

We had Chilli tuna a'vec Cous Cous