The Isthmus track is beautiful with some of the largest gum trees I've ever seen. (And some very loud yellow tailed black cockatoos) They are almost as impressive as the karri forest near Walpole in WA. These are majetic trees that will hopefully be there long after I'm gone. Their shade was also a welcome relief as this was a hot day out in the sun.You can see from the picture above that Hazards Beach gets very busy at this time of year! We had to stop and just sit here for an hour or so just because we could. I'd really love to come here camping some time. The water is Mediterranean blue and the sand is blindingly white (and today it was out of the wind compared to Wineglass over on the eastern side!)
Be warned though. It is a reasonable walk back to the car park from here (a good 2 hours for some closer to 3 I'm guessing). I don't think it can be stressed too much how easy it is to dehydrate out here. We carried 6 litres in total today and it was all gone when we got back to the car before 4pm. Some people definitely did not look suitably equipped.
Tonight we stayed at the Freycinet Lodge. Not the cheapest at AUD240 for an Oyster Cabin but it was a nice location. The food in the restaurant was good-not fantastic but very good but it had a barn-like, or cavernous, quality to it that detracted from the place even though the large glass frontage was impressive and definitely to its advantage. The highlight of the evening though probably had to be walking down to Honeymoon Bay with a chilled bottle of LD Jansz fizz, a couple of chilled glasses, and watching the sun start to go down before dinner. We had the added bonus of an echidna looking for dinner and amazing little fronded clouds coming in from the east creating little table cloths on the Hazards.
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