Mt Remarkables National Park to Melrose SA

Sunday 25th November 2018
As usual we had a great night’s sleep in the National Park. Seems to be a consistent occurrence. Love it!

Plans for today was to hike in the Mt Remarkable National Park, which walk was yet to be decided. We had a car issue again, the water seems to be going down after travelling at high speed. DB not sure what to do, so we decided to, as usual, have our walk first and deal with it later. So off we go after breakfast on the Sugargum Lookout (8km return) walk. We decided this was the best option as we haven’t really done any hiking for a while. The option we would have liked to do was the 18km Gorge walk but this seemed a little too big for our starting hike. The walk was along a creek and through some amazing gum trees. I love it as usual. Then past Scarfes Hut (an old shepherds hut) and then a short steep climb up to the lookout. Then back down we go, unfortunately for DB it was back along the same track most of the way.

We then did a short 2.2km loop walk through Davey’s Gully. This was an enjoyable walk with further gum trees and at the alter stage looking out to the water across the plains. It was very beautiful.

After this walk we had a look at the Baroota Homestead Ruins. The Baroota Homestead ruins are well worth a look. It really depicts the hardships that farming families faced in the early 1900’s with drought, isolation and the effect of living within the Goyder Line. Then we headed on our way to test the water problem on our 1 hour drive to Melrose.

We stopped on the way at Port Germain and walk the 1.65km jetty. Lucky the carnival wasn’t on at this beach as it was a 1.5km run across the flats before starting the board race.

We then drove through the very small town of Murray past the wheat fields to Melrose which will be the start of our hike tomorrow morning. Up to the Mt Remarkable Summit.

A big day today, followed by some car experiments, unfortunately no solution yet.