We meet at the Ballpark in Gillies Bay at 10:00am.
Last week we drove up Shelter Point Rd and then left onto the High Rd towards Van Anda, parking at the last house on the right. Walking north from there we eventually turned off the main road onto a side road just before the Pocahontas Bay turnoff. This is a fairly recent logging access road that winds it's way through an elongated and replanted cutblock. Near the end of the road we took a quad trail that heads west and provides a route running through mostly forest all the way down to Gillies Bay. This took us to Cap Sheaf Lake where we left the quad trail and walked north along the east side of the wetland to a delightful lunch spot on the top of a mossy cliff. The weather remained dry but cloudy and the tops of the taller forrest trees were shrouded in mist.
After lunch I suggested instead of retracing our steps the way we had come we might try finding a way through the forest to meet up with the old road to Cap Sheaf mining claim, and this we did. The forest is fairly open below the canopy in the area and we made good progress, reached the old road and followed it north for a while and then got onto another quad trail that winds south-east to the High Road.
JD.
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