Epic Hikes of the World ( PDFDrive )

and east to the hump of Arthur’s Peak – the next day’s main challenge.
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Cape Raoul
The Three Capes Track could generously be described as undulating. There are
no huge summits to conquer, but instead a rolling trail, sometimes on wellmaintained
dirt or rocky paths, elsewhere along springy wooden boardwalks. The
second day’s hike led first through more eucalypt forest, where first a wallaby then
a bronze skink darted off the path ahead, to a curious sculpture – the first of some
37 ‘Encounters on the Edge’ studding the trail. Each was created especially for the
track, and reflects an aspect of the area’s human or natural heritage. ‘Punishment
to Playground’ is a bench filled with snorkel masks, fishing reels and golf clubs, a
nod to the changing function of nearby Point Puer; today a golf course, until 1849 it
was the site of a boys’ prison. A little further on came a pile of large, smooth
wooden cubes: ‘Who Was Here?’, a reminder to look for the square poos of
snuffling wombats.
“That night I munched dinner in the open, gazing across the craggy
columns of Cape Raoul and the hump of Arthur’s Peak”
Through scrub and forest scented with eucalypt and tea tree I climbed, to be