PC Walk - Fingers 3 & 4

I woke up this morning at 4:50am and Scott stirred and then we both fell back to sleep and woke up at 6am! I said to Scott we had to hurry up and get going soon. We had protein bars for breakfast and had a coffee each. We then purified some water for the day and filled up our water bladders. We brought the water filter with us so we could get water on the way.

We headed off close to 7:30am and saw the other two people who had camped the night before they said they were doing Finger 1 and 5 today. We continued on and immediately had to walk around a water pool before walking on loose rocks and sand. We found the turn off to Finger 5 and continued. We soon found ourselves scrambling over large rocks that had fallen into the creek overtime. It was quite exhausting scrambling over the rocks. As we neared the end the trail opened into a beautiful garden with palm trees and what looked like oak trees.

We started on Finger 3 first but after nearly an hour of trying to scramble over massive boulders we headed back to the track. We next started on Finger 4 which had minimal rock clambering at first and walked through a rocky garden before we saw at least 100m of rocks to climb over. We decided not to continue further.

We headed back and found Finger 2 and started walking through a narrow gorge. It was so beautiful. It was by far the best finger so far. We then started walking through a cave and found a little water crossing. There was a chasm directly above us and the sun was in the perfect position for a reflection in the water. We walked through the water and continued on through the narrow gorge. We found a second gorge with water and tried to walk through but it became narrower and deeper. I checked the map and it said we were at the end of the trail. We then headed back out while taking in the views.

We walked back onto the main track and quickly started scrambling over rocks again. At the first clean looking water pool we stopped for lunch and filtered some water to fill up our packs. We then continued on to Finger 5 arriving around 3pm. We were getting quite tired having walked about 15km which had involved a lot of rock scrambling.

Finger 5 was a lot wider than number 2 but had beautiful high gorges with palm trees and other plants. We climbed over rocks and walked into a little cave before ending at a rock wall and couldn’t go any further. Scott and I walked up a different track and sat down and admired the view of the gorge. We then headed back down towards our campsite and found a big pool where we swam in. The water wasn’t too cold but it was very refreshing and exactly what we needed.

We continued on to our campsite and I tried to filter about 2 litres of water. The filter was becoming clogged and it was getting harder and harder. Scott made us a cup and teas and at 5:30pm we started organising dinner. We had freeze dried beef curry. It definitely didn’t taste like a traditional curry but still quite tasty.

We watched the sunset behind the gorges and then the mosquitos came out so we headed into our tent and I fell asleep at 7:30pm. Scott went and looked at the stars and saw a massive shooting star that took up a large part of the sky and then fizzled out.Read more