On the 18th and 19th of November 2017,
I planned a hike for my explorer level badge. Harry, Stephan, Vinnie, Brodie,
Angus and Shane joined me on this hike. We met at the Scout Hall at 10.30am and
waited for leaders to arrive. We left at 11.30am. Annabel took Brodie, Vinnie
and I. Harry and Stephan went with Shane. Angus planned to meet us at the Sale
Park where we meet and had lunch. We met here around 1pm. After about half an
hour eating lunch we moved onto our destination, Den of Nargen.
After waiting 1
hour for Shane and Angus to get Shanes car into position we started walking. It
took 15mins to get our packs set up. We started walking and we didn’t have to
much trouble with tracking because the track was so clear. We were going to go
to Billy Goat Bend but we took a detour to the cave of the Den of Nargen. The
cave was beautiful and we saw turtles and lots of lizards. From there we headed
to our camp site. But to get to our camp site was quit difficult but not impossible.
As we walked Steven thought we were heading to the moon because we just keep
walking up and up and up. At first Steven was lagging behind but when we made
it close to the camp site Brody stated to lag behind. Shane, Angus and I were
up front and we decided to stop and wait for the others to catch up. We waited
until the others got there and were about to head off when we realised that
Brody was not there, so we waited for about half an hour when we decided to
continue to the camp which was about 400m away. Anges and I went to go see were
Brody was while the others went to camp. We found Brody a few meters down the
track and then continued up to the top of the camp site. When we got to the
camp site we set up our tents, had dinner talked and went to bed.
Next morning, we got up as early as we could so we could get
to the end as soon as possible. We ate
breakfast, packed up tents and started to head off. Shane stayed with his van so he could drive
to the end of the trail. As we started walking we heard deer calling in the
distance. We also came across many
beautiful gullies. Today was a longer distance than yesterday, but had less
difficult hills. Near the end we found a
Goanna and Harry thought he heard a snake.
One of the last rests we took, Angus lost his phone. But after 20 minutes he found it behind
Brody’s bag. From there it was only a
few kilometres to our destination. We
walked until we found Shane and his van at Angusvale. After around half an hour, Maryanne and
Duncan rocked up and we all went for a well-deserved dip in the refreshing
water.
Once we got dried up we left to pick up Angus’s Ute and then
onto Sale McDonalds for tea.
by Lance
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