Day 3 Chin beach to Sombrio beach

I do not see any reason why you would go out of your way to visit Chin beach; the route to it in both directions is very hard but Sombrio beach is stunning.
Having walked the mere 8km trail here today you might think it an easy days stroll, but this part of the trail is horrendous!

From about 25km to 29km it is one landslip/mudslide after another. No flat ground at all just uphill slog and down hill slip. With a pack it was ridiculously hard and we spent most of it crawling on our knees. Jenny and I are both covered in bruises where we slid in the mud.
The highlight of today's trail was the beautiful suspension bridge and the beautifully tranquil Sombrio beach.
We arrived at Sombrio beach and had a chat with a local photographer who was taking photos of grey whales. He told us that the forest trail further up west Sombrio beach was closed due to landslides. It was high tide so we were trapped as the coastal route was blocked by the tide.
As we have a fixed amount of time we made a call and decided to walk a further 2km to Sombrio beach trail head where we could maybe catch a lift and walk back on ourselves from the other end of the Juan de Fuca trail.

Two very muddy, smelly women who had not washed for days did not seem an appealing option for a lift.
As luck may have it (or call it fate) up drove Anthony a Frenchman on holiday in a new mustang GT ( I swear I'm not making this up- we have photos!)
He very kindly loaded our filthy packs and us into the lovely clean car and drove us to Port Renfrew. In return we bought him a beer and offered him camping advice for along the trail as well as shared our knowledge of the area as he was looking to do a two day trek himself.