It’s late January and the weather forecast is partly cloudy and 25 degrees, ideal for a walk at Wilson’s Promontory National Park. What I didn’t notice was the easterly strong wind warning (but more on that later).

Arrive at the Telegraph saddle car park about 8.00am. The start of the walk is three kilometres downhill along telegraph track, which is a service road, so doesn’t really feel like a walk in the bush. A glance to the right shows the sand dunes of Oberon Bay lit up by sunshine, but where I’m walking the clouds cling to the hills. Passing McAlister Creek, the track levels out and is pretty much flat all the way to four corners. I turn left here to Waterloo Bay. While the track is winding and a little hilly it is well maintained, especially along sections of boardwalk which have been laid over the previous rutted track (thank you parks officers). It is comforting that the whole of this section is monitored by a family of “rock people”.