The first couple of hundred metres up Boot Hill are the worst, but there the bitumen stops and Runnyford Road levels out to a gently undulating walk all the way down the Buckenbowra River and back to the Princes Highway south of Bateman Bay.
Not that we walk that far! We start off from a point near the B52 spot on the map, and are happy to reach the fork in the road marked in yellow. There we take a long swig from the old waterbottle before heading back to Nelligen. Perhaps one day we'll complete the walk.
Of course, I could make things easier by driving all the way up to the cemetery and start from there, but I save that for the day when they pick me up and drive me there in a car bigger than my little FORD Focus. Without getting technical about it, I think it's called a hearse.
