day two (camper to walbran - 9 km)

deer next to matt's tent

cable cars at camper

deer leaving camp

sandstone creek

big ladder day

more ladders

lunch at cullite creek

cable car at cullite

suspension bridge over logan creek

view from suspension bridge

setting up camp a walbran

camping on the pacific ocean

the sun is up a 5 and doesn't go down until 9:30. i wake and it is sunny and i hear people. i have no idea what time it is and my body is not wanting to get up. i was one of the first of our group up and i went to get my food (each major camp site has a bear locker next to the outhouse to store your food in....storage is limited, so if the bear locker is full then you have to hang your food from a tree). there is a deer that wondered into camp and layed down next to matt's tent. it stayed there until everyone got up and then walked past everyone on its way back into the woods. i had planned granola and instant milk for breakfast each morning. after barely getting it down today, i burnt the rest in tonight's fire. we didn't leave camp until 10:15 (second last to leave). leaving camper there are not any options on where to go....inland trail is it. the conditions were familiar.....hills, mud, roots, and boardwalks.....and then big ladders. we took a huge set of ladders down to cullite creek, took a cable car across cullite creek and more ladders back out cullite. then was the suspension bridge over logan creek. the ladders coming down to the logan suspension bridge and the ones after the bridge were also huge. my knee started hurting early today and got worse as the day went on....to the point that every step hurt. we got into camp around 6 and there were not many campsites left. we set-up right on the ocean where walbran creek poured into the ocean. chris bathed in walbran. i walked 1/4 mile where the creek was flowing to get water. chris got us a nice fire started, although fire wood is scarce at this campsite. dinner, drink, burnt the tongue of my boot in the fire, and then bed. it rained at some point during the night, but nothing bad.