Tully
Not really a place that's on everyone's radar. In fact I'd be willing to bet alot of money that no one who reads this post has ever heard of it. To tell the truth niether had I so I had no idea what to expect. All I knew is that it was a small town.
It was, the main street where everything happened could be walked in about 3 minutes. There wasn't much there at all. You could tell that it hadn't been made into a tourist attraction which was a nice change from what I'd seen on my journy up north. Instead just freindly town folk living a simple yet peaceful life.
There are only two hostels in tully, one of which was a party hostel, the other being a quiet motel where I stayed.
As you walk down the street you can see Mount Tyson which was pretty much the whole point of our stop. It's not an impressive looking mountain, in fact doesn't look like a mountain at all.
Nether the less, the next morning we were going to climb to the top.
Up until this point I had never done any hiking which was why I wanted to have a go so we got up at 8, had breakfast and were heading to the bottom by 10am.
I thought it would be easy, but after walking up hill for 10 minutes and only just reaching the bottom I started to have second thoughts.
Tully has a very wet climate as it's surrounded by rainforest. Mt Tyson is a rainforset on a mountain. It's dense, wet, slippery and the amount of mosquitoes is something I'll never forget. They swarmed us, each of us had at least 10 mosquitoes on or around us at any time, I was glad I had my hoody.
Half way sneak peak
The climb wasn't just a path, we had to free climb parts which were not to difficult but you definitely wouldn't want to get some of them wrong. It was hot and humid and well...
We climbed fast! We were told there would be no mosquitoes at the top so we all agreed to up the pace. Instead of taking us 2 hours, it only took 1 hour and 20 minutes.
The view at the top was worth it though.
On the way down I slipped and stepped on a wooden stump and felt imense pain. But when I stopped the mosquitoes had a free meal so I pushed through. I don't have a photo but the bruise took up about half the surface area of the inside of my foot. Ouch!
It was worth it though, a challenge complete and I felt like I achieved something.
This experience further boosted my convidence and lead me to do something I said I would NEVER do...
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