We started our hike around 12:30 PM. As we both didn't feel up to climbing Mount Finlayson today, we wanted to hike to the railwail trestle and to the 'Niagara Falls'. However, just like the last time I had been here, we took a wrong trail within the first few minutes of the hike and then had to turn around. It took us a while to find and then stay on the right path. Nevertheless, the path offered amazing views of this beautifully green and overgrown rainforest. On our way, we had to cross several creeks that flooded the path. In addition to that, the path got pretty steep sometimes so the trail was actually quite challenging. At first, we were hiking quite slowly but then I found some sticks which we used as hiking sticks. This way, the steep and rocky path became a lot easier to walk on.
After a short walk on the trestle to enjoy the view from high above, we went in the direction of the Niagara Falls. However, when we arrived at the tunnel which I had used the last time I had been here in order to cross the highway, there was a massive river flowing through the tunnel. This was a quite unfortunate turn of events, as I had planned to take a path on the other side of the highway in order to get back to the bus stop. There was no other way to cross the highway. Consequently, we now had to walk back the way we had come from. Apart from keeping us from getting to the other side of the highway, the river also made it more difficult to get to the Niagara Falls. Since it was already around 4 PM, we decided against trying to get to the other side of the river to get closer to the Niagara Falls. Instead, we had a quick snack and then turned around.
It had taken us more or less 3 hours to get to the spot where we had turned aound. Due to the sun setting just past 6 PM, we only had about 2 hours now to get back to the bus stop... Hiking around here in the dark really wouldn't have been a good idea. So even though we were extremely exhausted by now and even though we really didn't feel like taking another step, we still tried our best to get back to the bus stop as fast as possible.
On the way back, we got a little lost, too. Nevertheless, we still found our way back - we had apparently only taken some alternative paths which we hadn't seen before for some reason.
We arrived at the bus stop around 6:15 PM, which was a good time as the bus was supposed to be here at 6:29 PM. While we were waiting at the bus stop, we were helping some work and traveler from Germany whom we had seen earlier during our hike out - his phone had died.
By the time I got back home, I was freezing and really looking forward to a hot shower. After that shower, I watched some tv with Katrina.
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