Wilsons Prom – Walk to the Lighthouse

Ages ago Carol suggested that the four of us walk to the Lighthouse at the southern end of Wilsons Promontory National Park one weekend.
It’s a very popular walk and with only around 28 beds you have to book a fair while in advance, no waiting to see what the weather is going to be like.

We were lucky to start off on Friday morning with a fine and mild (if humid) day. Although almost summer there were still plenty of flowers to admire along the roughly 17km walk towards the Lighthouse via Roaring Meg.

The walk was a lot more varied than along the vehicle track but involved a lot more walking uphill and down.

It was blowing quite hard when we got there and unfortunately we were too late for the last conducted tour (which I didn’t even realise they had. But the accommodation was much better than I had anticipated and we were all quite tired so slept well after pasta with “mock porcini” (mushroom and porcini) sauce and a wonderful sunset.

The following morning we were “fogged in” but still decided to return via Waterloo Bay rather than along the vehicle track.

The sea mist was with us for most of the day, well at least the first few hours of the 20km return trip, and we even saw 3 Hooded Plovers on the beach as we were eating a late lunch. But then the sky got very dark and the thunder started and we did the last three hours of the walk in the rain, which varied from drizzle to torrential. It was interesting to see the track turn into a stream, haven’t seen that since Cumbria and the Coast to Coast walk :-)

Despite getting drenched it was a great weekend and wonderful to spend time with good friends again.  I didn’t want to leave - Roll on Nepal!