By Ruth

Distance: 18 km

After getting treated like the Prince and Princess of Hamilton for the past two nights, I have to admit it was hard to start walking this morning. It didn’t help that the first section of trail was a swampy mess, and our packs were laden down with food for four days. We took our time though and slowly got back into the rhythm of the trail.

After lunch things improved a lot, and we had the most Woolly Wanderers experience yet. The trail took us to a farm track in the mountains, through meadows filled with sheep. At a certain point a farmer came out with a bunch of sheepdogs to move the sheep to a new pasture. For the next half an hour or so we were walking behind a mass of sheep as they were rounded up and herded along the path. They made quite the racket! But it was really cool to see.

Next was a little bit of forest and then we arrived at our camp for the night. There are nine walkers staying tonight! It’s a bit more than the place can handle, but fun to meet a bunch of new people who it looks like we’ll be walking with for the next few days at least.