Thread: Block 5

Kev and I spent the afternoon of day one hiking to the far end of our block to check out some grass flats. Arriving a little later than planned we set up camp about 700M away from the clearings, and had a feed before having a quiet night watching the stars, and yarning. We decided to leave the flats to the morning to take advantage of the morning breeze.
The next morning an hour of bush stalking saw us on the edges of the flat just as the sun started to clear the hills and warm the flatland.
We hunkered down and glassed the edges of the clearings and also took the opportunity to glass up into a large basin opposite us that we planned to venture into later on.
Our clearings offered up no prizes, we had struggled to find sign in the bush, everything was old.
Back to camp for breakfast, before breaking camp and heading back towards the main valley floor.
Stopping for a breather were were surprised to hear voice on the track behind us. Bugger, two trampers caught up and stopped for a chat.
They were heading to Bobs Hut for the night before returning back down the valley the next day.
We stopped on the valley floor and sat back on some tussocks and spent an hour or so glassing the valley we had planned to walk into. No animals presented themselves on the faces we could get glass onto.
We decided not to climb into the valley with all our gear, opting instead to drop gear at the hut and walk in light, so as to cover more ground.