The walk into Cape Surville has not been undertaken by our group previously.
The weather forecast was for a reasonably warm day with a southerly change coming though in early afternoon.
After an exciting couple of kms on fairly rough ex-forestry road we arrived at the carpark after crossing a small creek.
Looking up the creek from the road.
The group setting of on the 3 kilometre road walk until we reached the start of the track proper.
And it was getting warmer with every step.
Some of the degradation of the roadway explaining why we walked the extra distance.
A happy group enjoying a late morning tea.
Our first sighting of the coast from a small sidetrack just after we leave the open forest and start climbing the first hill.
First real glimpse of Cape Surville.
Still climbing.
The start of the first descent.
Native laurel in abundance in this area.
Entering a rainforest.
With a forest of very large Man Ferns.
Crossing the third creek but the first one with any significant flow.
Looking back along the coastline with some spectacular rock formations.
A clear view of High Yellow Bluff.
The Sisters .
Lunch with a view.
You can see the dolerite layer with sandstone on top and then a mudstone layer on top of that.
Some of the more hardy walkers continued on to the actual cape and provided the following photos.
A sea cave that was noted from The Cape
Parson's Bands Eriochilus cucullatus our lonely orchid for the day.
Leaving the carpark to head home.
We had 16 walkers who covered the 11km walk in just over 5 hours climbing and descending 280 meters.
A very enjoyable though hard walk for most of us.
Thanks to Ron and Micheal for the extra photos and Sally for leading the walk.
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