Big challenge day

Another early morning (for us), pack up and off to find Peter and Ellen. We assumed they'd be camping at Canal Creek and they were. Today started straight off with creek crossing after creek crossing. Sam creek was lovely and had a bit of depth, but nothing too tricky. Mistake creek tried to live upto it's name. Luckily 2 families were ahead of us, with an L and P plater driving so we got to watch/hassle them first. The L plater only got his licence 2 weeks ago (but often drives on the family property) and the P plater loses his licence as of the end of the month for speeding, so he was getting as much driving in as he could before then. It was a pretty decent drop off into this crossing, but all good in the end! Ben lead the group for Cannibal creek, another dicey looking one, but not bad. When he came down the hill from where he parked, he had a massive grin on his face, turns out the hill had a big hole/step up which meant that as he drove up, one of his front wheels was up in the air a fair bloody bit. The L plater's car behind couldn't quite get up the hill, so Ben snatched him up and over. Leading this crossing however, put Ben in front for Cypress, which was that God damn 'log Bridge' if you can even call it that, which I'm sure you've already seen by now. I wasn't planning on being in the car for this one, but it was pretty nervewracking just watching and directing Ben. He said it was hard not having any awareness of where you are on the bridge since he couldn't see anything. I'm even more glad I wasn't in there. He crossed and we helped guide the others across. The next crossing we came across wasn't named on the map, it just said 'ford' and it was a pretty tough one. Waist deep and quite long. They took a while getting ready for this one, so I hung out with the other family's staffy, she was so beautiful.Lue lisää