Day 7 (101)

Overcast morning ☁️, sunny with clear blue skies by midday ☀️ high of 29 degrees

🏡Home for night
It was only supposed to be a one nighter but we’ve decided to stay on at The Rock Recreation Ground for a few more days (the beauty of having no real plans 😜) ‘cause something’s coming to town and we don’t want to miss it 😊

🚶🏼6.5 km hike

👍🏻 Chatting with locals at the ‘Bowlo’ 💬
👎🏻 The bloody cockies 🙉

Our reason for coming to The Rock was The Rock, a geological giant souring 364m above the plains.
It was originally called ‘The Hanging Rock' because of an overhang on its eastern face, but after this collapsed in 1874 it now simply 'The Rock’.

We set off early before the heat of the day to hike to the summit, taking the Yugay track up and returned via the Yerong track - a total of 6.5km and 452m elevation .
Both tracks are grade 4 but we definitely chose the best way for the loop as Yugay is more challenging and requires some rock scrambling at times to reach the ridge. On the way up we passed The Towers an area where the Peregrine Falcons nest.
During the hike we met Dave who was in training for his next trail running event and ran 2 loops of the trail to our one 😳

After some housekeeping/maintenance jobs we wandered into town and got as far as the bowling club ‘the bowlo’ - clearly the place to be on a Wednesday evening.
We chatted to the locals and watched the social bowling- whilst secretly yearning to get out and have a go 😜

Had dinner watching the sun going down on The Rock thinking ‘we walked all the way up there this morning’ WOWLæs mere