Beach Hopping with Banke - Sussex to Tokeh

The joy of being between jobs is that you are available for anything at pretty short notice.  The ideal would of course be some paid work, but in the absence of that joining a friend on their holidays is a very good substitute.  This was the case last week when I partnered Banke on part of her walk down the peninsula to visit all the beaches.  She started at Lumley on Thursday morning and I met her at Sussex for lunch at Franco’s on Friday.  She had had a number of adventures by then.  I was full of anticipation of what lay ahead.

View of Sussex as we left

We walked the short distance to the main road to make our way to our first stop – Baw Baw.  The sun was searingly hot as we reached the tarred peninsula road which magnified the baking sun. It was hot and walking was not that appealing – heat, traffic fumes, lorries thundering past – not the relaxing holiday break we had envisaged.  So, this is how we ended up on the back of a lorry as described here to reach the Baw Baw turn off.

This was my first time at Baw Baw, it did not disappoint. 

Baw Baw Beach

Derelict structure from better days gone by

There are no amenities here and it was lovely to have it all to ourselves to explore a derelict structure while surmising its previous use.  We walked on through the forest to emerge onto No.2 River.  It felt like a scene from a film as the beautiful beach opened up in front of us.

Only one thing to say about this "Wow"

 

The next stretch to Tokeh was all on the white sand.  Until that is we hit the river.  We contemplated wading across but the tide is strong and it looked pretty deep.  So shorts off and we hailed a boat to take us the short distance.

A natural sailor!

Another 30 minutes of walking and we reached our resting place for the night – Tokeh Sands Resort.  

Home for the night

We had called ahead to book the little white hut where we sat down to a well earned ginger beer- ginger beer with such a hit that we had to water it down with Sprite!  We headed into the water and reflected on our travels to date.

Another amazing Salone sunset

As the sun set we wondered what tomorrow would bring.