Billy Goats Bluff

For a cranky old man, Pup woke up pretty well today. Didn't fight us too much to get him out of bed. Got ourselves organised and stopped off for some wifi before hitting the road. We took the same part of the road we came back on yesterday, as far as the Kingswell bridge. Rather than taking the bridge, Ben took us through the river instead. A little bit further down the track and we hit the start of Billy Goat Bluff, one of the steepest 4wd tracks in Australia. Ughhh what a ride. I probably would've been more relaxed if we didn't have Pup in the car, luckily Ben was all over it. I'm glad he didn't tell me what he was thinking during the track though, or I probably would've had a heart attack. It was ridiculously steep and it was really chewed up. Think of it as if you were driving up Brown Street in town, except it goes for 10kms and there are loose rocks everywhere, uneven ground and relatively sheer drops off every so often. It was amazing to do it, and the views looking out to the oncoming track were unreal, but ominous haha. We ended up behind a group of 3 cars who were recording their efforts, we were happy to follow (so we could scope out each challenge), but they waved us through. Ten kms and what felt like a lifetime later, we reached the top. The bluff itself was a rockshelf which we couldn't really stop at due to the track, so we kept going to the Pinnacles fire tower lookout.Read more