The Great Ocean Walk - Ryan's Den to Devils Kitchen - Day 7

 Once again we started walking into what was another beautiful day leaving camp by about 8.20 for a 14km walk to Devil's Kitchen. The first 5 or so kilometres were up and down so the going was slow, but we did get some great views back over to our camp site.

We reached a point where the track skirted a farm house. This farm house was built to take in the views of the coast and would have witnessed many great sunsets and storms as they brewed in Bass Strait. From the farm house the track took us through Eculayptus and Melaleuca forest. The tack followed the contour lines of the ridges nicely many for much easier going allowing us to make good time to the Gables that offered views of the coast and the water. The Gables been a structure build out off the cliff face.

Once down from the Gables we walked along the beach having lunch in the shade of a sandstone cliff. We walked along the beach passing the anchors of some early shipwrecks such as the Fiji. The only bits remaining of the shore we heavy anchors and other bits of heavy machinery. The rock pools were very interesting and the flat rock shelves that stretched out into the water we littered with rocks and boulders that were tougher than the sandstone as the sandstone seemed to be eroded around these large rocks.

We stopped off for a quick swim followed by a 1 or so km walk up the hill to our camp site. The camp site was nice. The look out from the camp site was fantastic that showed a great sunset over the water, the goldern orb of the sun slowing descending and disappearing below the horizon. It was a sight well worth witnessing.

JB and Chis decided to go for another swim after camp was setup to wash off the sweat from the water up the hill. That night for dinner we have Beef Bourguignon a freeze dried treat. We also had some cheese, left over dried figs and port as we watched the sun set and also in recognition that this was our last night on the track.