Baleine Hike 

Our final trip of the 2003-2004 Scouting year  year started Friday May 14th around 5:00 pm.  The first interesting thing that happened is a Yellow Lab started following us.  One venturer stuck the name "Mud" to the dog and we all started calling him it.

The terrain we walked on was varied, there was bog, soft sandy beach and cliffs overlooking the shore. We hiked untill around 8:30, we set up camp and had a campfire with hotdogs and marshmellows.  "Mud" was still with us and got a fair bit of food from us, it was almost like he did this often.  However when we went to sleep and woke up the next morning he was gone, later we found he had gone home when we returned to the vehicles.  When we packed up camp and continued hiking we hiked in more dry terrain then in the beginning, this included steep banks along with light woods. The banks were dangerous to ankles because of loose ground.  However we reached easy terrain after 1:00 with open fields and trails.  When we reached the baleine highway we were faced with temptation when a passerby offered us a drive the rest of the 2 kilometres which we would probably normally pay for in this situation our feet were hurting so bad but we wanted to get this under our belts.  An interesting thing to not is when we left at 3:15 to head back home it was 4 degrees Celsius with fog and wind, when we arrived back in Sydney an hour later the skies were clear, calm and it was 23 degrees!

photo 1 -> Group shot as we start the hike

photo 2 -> Shot of a us resting on a giant rock

photo 3 -> View of our camp site

photo 4 -> Shot of us at the plaque commerating how Beryl Markham crash landed her plane in 1936 during a solo flight across the atlantic in this area. The other one commerates how this was the first Scottish settlement in 1629.

photo 5 -> Map of Hike