Day 32 (2/10 Saturday) – Mount Remarkable

Unfortunately had new neighbours move in on Friday. Probably quite pleasant but the kids had the loudest voices I have ever heard, especially one little girl for whom the descriptor “stentorian” is remarkably appropriate, especially when used to good effect at 6.30 am. Forced out of bed eventually and set off to the northern end of the park to walk the Alligator Gorge Ring Route trail. Ended up combining several walks into the day, including the Alligator Gorge loop (takes you through “The Narrows”, a fantastic narrow gorge lined by red rock cliffs and with Alligator creek running along the bottom), the ring route round the rest of Alligator Gorge, bit of an add-on of 3 km up to the Battery for views (and bonus kangaroos) over Spencer Gulf. Total of about 14 km. We sound very fit, but in fact could barely walk and were groaning quite a lot long before we reached the home stretch! Certainly giving the new boots a work out! Couldn’t quite get up the energy to do Davey’s Gully (2.4 km loop from our campsite recommended as as evening or early morning walk) so had a nice hot shower, opened a bottle of vino and vegged out.