Ended up spending ten days at Sundown Point, a few cold, wet days but mostly good, relaxfull, sunny days. Found some aboriginal carvings in the rocks, we were told they were there but took a while to find them.

 

Made our way back to Smithton to stock up on supplies and water because this is the closest town with a supermarket and it’s not that far anyway. Then back to the west coast.

On the way back to the coast we took a small detour up into the hills and found a nice spot to call home for the night.

 

Reached the turnoff to the western explorer HI way, all gravel, and headed off southward towards Corinna. This road we haven’t done before.

 

 

 

About ten km down the Balfour Track crosses the road, you can turn left and go to the deserted old mining town of Balfour, about three or four km in on the 4wd track. So we did. It was an overcast showery day, the track was small and very rough. About 2.8k in and the weather and track getting worse, we decided to leave Balfour for another day, so found a place to turn around and headed back to the main road.

Not too far up the main road we came to a creek crossing with a camp site off the road, so pulled up and set up camp.