Arrive at the Uloola falls campsite.

(We've arrived at our first waypoint very early, at a rate faster than i first predicted. To tell the truth, we were power walking our way here, and based on this early sign, i've made a slight adjustment to the schedule.
We'll continue walking along our route to Audley, where we'll stop for dinner and an hour break, but then we'll night hike down Lady Carrington Drive and beyond with the thought of perhaps sleeping over at Governor Game Lookout or somewhere near there.

To this end, we'll accelerate the entire hike by half a day, and instead of camping at north era, we'll camp at Curracurrang.

The rest of the party are happy with this thought, for it means that if we get all the hard work done today and tonight, we get a huge break at Garie Beach and can take it easy along the coast with all the views.)

Arrive at Karloo Pool (break)

Arrive at the foot of an unmarked pool

(I know where we are, but Vu believes we're 4km up the river closer to Audley. We can't have walked for more than a kilometre at most and i can see a track going uphill and i believe this is the same track as indicated on the map which joins up with the 4WD track later on. We'll follow this track to higher ground, take a bearing to confirm our position, but i'm pretty confident that we're on the right path)

Kangaroo creek

There's a convenient set of steel stairs up the next hill, thank god! I guess that without the stairs, it'd take us a good half an hour to climb this bugger...

Audley

We've set an excellent pace! This is way beyond my expectations for the first major hike for our crew, and whilst walking along the last 2km, i can't help but be confident that this augurs well for upcoming rambles in september and january.

Leave Audley --> Lady Carrington Drive

The sun has set, and the ducks are making even more activity on the water (don't wanna ponder on EXACTLY what they're up to there...) and the party is well rested. The thought of ghosts linger at the back of my mind (we've all heard the Warragamba story a hundred times), but are quickly dismissed.

SIR BETRAM STEVENS DRIVE!!!

It's an utter feeling of jubiliation here... for the last 2 hours, we've had no idea how far along the track we were. There's something about night hiking that makes u unaware of just how far you've travelled...
On the way here, we passed a sign that said the carpark was only 730 metres ahead... after walking for what seemed like forever, we thought we were being jipped! Ghost stories of signs that weren't really there, that lead u to a ghastly fate had run through my mind for every single one of those 730 metres...
Night hiking does that to you, you have absolutely no idea where you are until you reach some major landmark.

We passed the Wallamurra track a while back, the original plan was to follow that to governor game lookout, but our torches aren't that well suited to minor tracks at night, so we decide to take the longer, yet safer way.

Kent's legs are starting to cramp up.

Turnoff down to Garie Beach

We stopped at Little toonum falls for a while there to give kent's cramps some much needed relief.

Walking against the traffic, we slowly made our way up Sir Bertram Stevens Drive to Governor Game lookout, Kent seems possessed when we were only 1km out from the turnoff... his cramps went away and he started powerwalking faster than the rest of us combined!

Governor Game lookout

We've put down a flysheet and we'll sleep on this tonight.

I just realised something... weve done almost 2/3rds of the hike in just over 10 hours... WOW! Two thoughts immediately come to mind...
1. The rest of the hike will be easy.
2. Damn we're so gonna kick the Great north walk in september!!!

Governor Game lookout

The sunrise... is amazing... as always.

Leave Governor Game lookout for Garie

Arrive at Garie Beach

Could you believe it? I saw a deer of all things in the bush!!! I thought i was hallucinating... a deer of all things in the royal national park!

Such a quiet beach, knowing how easy the rest of the hike is, we decide to bum here for half a day.

At the top of the cliffs north of Garie Beach.

Normally, a cliff like that would take the grunt out of anyone, but we made good work of it. Still, we decide to take 5 and check out the amazing view

Reach eagle rock

Our speed is still up, i take that as a sign that over the previous day nighter, we've set our pace as a group.

Curracurrang

Camp for the night

Wattamolla

The camera's batteries have run out after this last photo... i'll buy a new battery when we get to bundeena

Marley Beach

The views are amazing... pity we can't take any pictures... the sea seems a bit calm today too

End of the coastal walk, at the outskirts of bundeena

Local Shops at bundeena.

The pharmacy is closed for lunch, will have to wait till 2 pm to buy the battery. Meanwhile, we get a well deserved cooked lunch.

Bundeena wharf

END OF HIKE!