Day 1: Hello all, What a day, we set out early to beat the long weekend traffic, bags packed and boots tied tight ready for a day of hiking ahead. We had booked a camp site at Gheerula camping grounds and planned to park at Mapleton Falls and hike the "Great Walk". Well half of it any way, what we believed to be about a 10-12k hike taking about 3 to 5 hours. What we actually found was about a 14-18k hike taking about 8 hours of relatively hard pace hiking. We never took into account the zigzagging of the track extending the distances on the map a lot. Passing some of the most beautiful scenery I have ever been through made it totally worthwhile. The lushest rain forest to washed out tracks due to recent ... read more