PC Trail - Camp to Piccanniny Carpark

We woke up at 5:30am this morning and ate breakfast. I then started packing all the inside of the tent up while Scott washed the dishes and made the lunches. We worked as quickly as we could to pack up our campsite and remove all the rubbish and we started hiking at 7:15am.

The walk to Black Rock Pool was a lot quicker and easier than when we were carrying the heavier packs with water in. We arrived at Black Rock Pool around 9am and met another couple completing the overnight hike and then a tour group who had helicoptered in for the day. We continued on to the elbow which would be the last of the shade as we came out of the Gorge.

We had 10km to walk to the carpark from the Elbow and the first few kilometres was walking across lots of sand so it was slow going. We finally reached the first of the walking signs and stopped to look at the Window which was just off the track and slightly underwhelming. We completed the last few km’s quite quickly walking over rock beds as opposed to sand. Our next stop we decided to complete was the Domes loop. We walked along and end up in this Little Rock cave with a large chasm above us. It was quite beautiful.

We headed back to the carpark and stopped to have lunch before continuing on to the visitor centre to sign out and drop off the PLB we had borrowed. We both grabbed a cold drink which was very refreshing before returning to the Wilderness Lodge.

Scott and I spent the afternoon relaxing before having dinner with Jayden and some of his coworkers. We had Chicken Parmigiana for dinner which was delicious and heading off to bed just after 8pm.Read more