Friday, 7th August – Brooklyn to Apple Tree Bay

Raising the bar

This walk was our longest so far starting at Brooklyn and going through Cowan and Berowra before ending up at Apple Tree Bay just after 11pm with over 40km under our belts.

This is the toughest test we’ve given ourselves so far but thanks to the right combination of pre-walk training and meat pies, we managed to come though it well, even when being meters away from the car at Apple Tree Bay, Tony P. finds that his wallet has fallen out of his pack. So, about face and back up the trail to look for it for a few more kilometres before heading home without it. As luck would have it, a fellow Oxfam hiker picked the wallet up the following day and returned it with all of it’s contents intact.

We also walked by another naked guy, this time washing his undies in Jerusalem Bay… Brrrr… Not pleasant..

A link to trail directions and map for the first leg can be found here,  for the second leg here and for the third leg here.

  

Berowra Waters (again) and some (more) pretty flowers..

THE STATS

Start – Cp1
Start Time: 10:01am
Duration: 3:40:39
Finish Time: 1:51pm
Distance: 15.29km
Average Pace: 14.26 min/km
Average Speed: 4.2 km/h

Cp1 - Cp2
Start Time: 1:51pm
Duration: 4:52:59
Finish Time: 7:08pm
Distance: 15.17km
Average Pace: 19.19 min/km
Average Speed: 3.1 km/h

Cp2 – Cp3
Start Time: 7:35pm
Duration: 3:33:21
Finish Time: 11:08pm
Distance: 13.77km
Average Pace: 15.30 min/km
Average Speed: 3.9 km/h

Total Time: 12:06:59
Total Distance: 44.22km

For a Google Earth file of this session, click here.