Day 50 | Colac Bay
2 December 2022 | 12°C | 14km
It’s resupply day and it takes us some time to figure out how many days of food we need. More elevation gain soon, so days of 30km a day may not be realistic and the terrain (mud?) is unclear too. Once we finally head out it’s 1.30pm and the first walk up the road seems endless with our heavy packs. The sun is coming out and it looks like it’s going to be a lovely walk along the coast over sheep paddocks and beaches again.
The last 6 kilometers towards Colac Bay are on a longer gravel beach with impressive waves. Walking on the loose gravels is exhausting so I walk as close to the water as possible where the ground is more firm and flat even if the waves occasionally touch my already wet feet.
I reach for my phone to take a video of these impressive waves when I suddenly feel how my feet loose ground. I fall and see how a big wave devours my phone, water bottle and and trekking poles. While my trekking poles float away, once the water moves back I suddenly see and quickly pick up my phone. Turns out that my rather expensive waterproof case was a good investment.
We watch the waves moving back and forth for some time and Phil manages to recover one of my poles but the second one would not reappear. Bad luck as my tent sets up with poles but it’s just too cold to stand in the wind for longer. Despite quickly changing my wet clothes I feel freezing cold.
Fortunately, Colac Bay is not too far and we decide to walk the last 3km to the holiday park on the road. Time for a hot shower to get warm and a cold beer to get over the loss of my trekking pole!