Storms River Day 2

We were up at 6:00am and at 6:20am, Ellie suggested we get dressed early and go and do the suspension bridge hike before anybody else was up so we got dressed, both donned our hiking shoes and headed down to the bottom of the park.
It was a 2km hike to the suspension bridges and quite a few stairs. Ellie had been wanting to come here ever since she saw it on YouTube. The pictures and videos on YouTube were all from a drones perspective and for the best views that’s what we needed really but we were here and we had the whole place to ourselves. 3 massive suspension bridges spanning the width of the storms mouth river. It looked very unique and we were lucky not to have anybody else in our pictures.
From the suspension bridges we headed back towards camp and I suggested we do a hike called the blue diecker hike which was 3.5 hours long and took us to a waterfall but Ellie said we may aswell just do the waterfall hike because that’s 3.5 hours on it’s own.
We walked straight past our caravan and to the other end of the camp and when the camp stopped the hike started.
At the beginning of the hike the was a warning saying it was only for fit hikers and the latest we could start was 2:30pm and it was a 3.5 hour round trip. It was now 8:45am and we had already clocked up just over 5km and been walking for nearly 2 hours, we had bottles of water and it wasn’t to hot yet so we set off.
The first 500 meters of the trail was just that, a trail through trees that was lovely, then we ended up at the beach where we had to climb over rocks. We could see a set of stairs about 500 meters away and headed for them but it was slow going. We were on all fours for a lot of it and it became more of a climb than a hike. It was seriously dangerous territory.
We reached the steps and started climbing up the side of the hill until we came to a point where we could climb down the rocks and along the beach or go up to another path by pulling ourselves up on tree roots. We opted to go down and before we knew it we were climbing up and down huge rocks cutting across the beach.
An hour later we had only covered about 2km and we were knackered. I was worried about twisting my knee or one of us breaking at the very least an ankle and we both felt the hike was dangerous so we turned around. We did feel a little defeated but neither of us want to end up in hospital over here.
We clambered back and by the time we reached camp it was midday and our legs were burning. We had walked almost 12km not including the amount of climbing and had been walking for 5 hours, we were knackered.
Back at camp the sun was now out and cooking us as it had been for the past hour so I went for a cold shower.
We spent the rest of the afternoon back at camp until 4:30pm when we decided to drive down to the restaurant and eat out.
We dined at the cattle baron, Sanparks famous restaurant and I had the blue cheese steak and Ellie had a normal steak. The meal was lovely.
When we got back to camp the sun had gone in and a biting wind had picked up and at 7pm I said I was done with the day and we went in to watch TV while the wind rocked us.Read more