| Day: | 028 |
| Date: | Monday, 12 April 2011 |
| Start: | Honeysuckle Creek Campground |
| Finish: | Namadgi National Park Visitors Centre, Tharwa, ACT (finish of the AAWT) |
| Camp Location | Here |
| Daily Kilometres: | 15.4 AAWT |
| Total Kilometres: | 659.6 AAWT |
| Animal Encounters | Birds, kangaroos |
| People Encounters | Three day hikers and one runner |
| Weather: | Cold and partly cloudy in the morning, sunny later |
| Pictures: | Here |
| Journal: | It rained during the night and I slept fitfully, probably in anticipation of finishing my trek. Everything was very wet when I got up at 5:30am and I transferred all my gear to the camp picnic shelter before packing and breakfasting. I was on my way on a very cool and sunny morning by 7:30am. The single-track hiking trail through the Eucalypt forest was very nice apart from those sections where it was a bit overgrown with sopping wet scrub and I was soon very wet and quite cold too. I resisted the temptation to stop and put on my clothes, deciding to walk briskly to warm up instead. I was sure it would warm up a bit in the next hour or so, and so it did. The scenery was a mix of forest dotted with huge boulders before the trail moved out into pasturelands belonging to an old farm that was now part of the Namadgi NP dominated by the towering Mt Tennent (1384m). The last part of the hike involved more nice single track onto the slopes of Mt Tennent then a long descent, involving a lot more steps than my knees would have liked to Tharwa and the Namadgi Visitors Centre, and the end of my hike. I arrived just after noon and was greeted by a friendly NP ranger who prepared a laminated AAWT Finisher Certificate for me and a free cup of coffee. Not long afterwards, my cousin-in-law, Chris, turned up to drive me into Canberra from where I will catch a train back to Sydney tomorrow. I am sad that the hike is over, but looking forward to seeing my loved ones again, and to some of the benefits of civilization - hot showers, junk food, TV, en-suites, etc. No doubt I will soon be thinking nostalgically back to the good times on the AAWT, and there were many. |
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