5 Week Tour - 4, Port Craig Track (Abandoned Logging Village)

The Port Craig Track was a 7 hour walk along a bush path that weaved in and out of a few different beaches along the South coast. We did it in 5..... not tooting our own horn or anything.

The actual place of Port Craig is an old abandoned Logging village. The village was full of families and workman up until around 1940, when the company went bust, sacked everyone and removed pretty much everything including the kitchen sinks. The only bits left that remain are a few rusted up bits of machinery scattered in the bush (DOC have put up plaques and tried to preserve everything by making paths around it all for people to look and learn.), a dilapidated old pier, and the old school building (as it was actually owned by the government, not the logging company)which is now the DOC hut. Trampers may stay in for 10 dollars a night.

We stayed for two nights, as the area around was lovely. Below is the beach which is just a 5 min walk away. When we went down in the day there was two dolphins just 10 metres out at sea, and they were there all the time we were there.

The only problem was that the air was thick with sand flies, so there was know basking in the sun on this beach. If you just exposed your hand for 30 seconds you would have about 500 of them all over it.

We had just about enough stamina to pick some mussels for dinner then had to rush back up to the hut. In the night we came back down to look at the stars and on the way back stopped in the bush to look at the gloworms.

On the way back we randomly spotted this egg on the beach further up the track. Another sight Ive never experienced. Remember now, there is no other human being for miles and miles. I love all this wildlife stuff.















Me at the end of a very long 4 and a half hours!!!