Deep Creek Cove - South Australia - 7th Sept 2008

On Father's Day, we decided to go bushwalking and have a picnic. After having a quick look over the map, I decided that Deep Creek Cove looked like a nice walk and the bonus was we could have a lovely picnic down by the sea. For those of you who know me already, you would be aware that I am navigationally challenged when using maps or GPS units and this was definitely a fine example of that.

The leisurely 3.4km walk down to Deep Creek Cove was a treacherous and mountainous alley way, totally grown over in parts. I feared when we hit the top of the stairway( a wild generalisation of what I would traditionally call a stairway) that my three little angels, 6, 4 & 3, had not a hope in hell of making it down safely and even less hope of making it back up. The distance between the steps was higher than Charlotte's head in places. Me of little faith! The girls made it, well we all made it, but the girls did an awesome job and although they were tired at the end of the trip, we were all pretty pumped that we had done a rather athletic walk/climb in really good time.

The sign said that the return trip could take 2.5 hours but we achieved it in under two hours without injuries or tears(well not many tears anyway). The weather was gorgeous, 18, sunny and a cool sea breeze to stop us sweating too much from the effort. As mentioned, the "stairs" consisted of logs set into the mountainside every so often and Charlotte had issues with this because the "steps" were about 3 foot apart and she's about 2 foot high, so she adapted like the little champion she is and avoided the "steps", creating a slalom course down the mountain, around the logs, which she traversed mostly on her backside, much to the amusement of me, bringing up the rear, and some English tourists we met half way down. I figured that if the worst injury she sustained going down that hillside was a dirty bottom then we could all live with that. The picture to the left shows the track up the hill.

The following pictures are of Deep Creek Cove. It is a beautiful spot. We had a lovely picnic, an awesome day and the whole family felt like they had achieved something when we finally made it home again in one piece.