We start today with a car packed and ready to go! Thanks to Ian and Deb they had given us a loan of all their camping equipment! We now had acquired a 6 person tent, a camping stove, 2 fold up camping chairs, and all the little bits you need to do camping. We packed and tidied our room leaving it ready for the next guests said our goodbyes and headed out! The GPS was programmed for Nowra with a detour via BCF to pick up some gas for the stove. We had a perfect trip down with the sun shining. We arrived at BCF bought a tin of gas and headed for our campsite. Myles spotted a Kmart and an IGA store where we bought a frying pan. they also had an offer on Heinz beans and Heinz spaghetti so we filled our basket. That was food sorted for the next month. Leaving IGA down the road we turned onto a road and the satnav said arrive in 19km (11.8miles) we drove down this mountain pass which was an amazing road it was corner after corner. Myles was in his element! We arrived at our campsite and checked in. We drove
around to our spot and threw the tent up in a matter of minutes as we had practised at home. The people next door introduced themselves and as it turned out were from Picton (where Myles works) massive country and yet we meet people from down the road!! Anyway we had a walk around to see what was what.
This was the view from our tent.
As we were there pretty late it wasn't long before dinner. For tonight's feast we tucked into some pizza which we had left over from the night before. Myles took Deb and Ian out to the local Italian as a thank you it looking after us.
The chap from next door came up and said he was about to light a fire and we were welcome to join him if we wished. We graciously accepted and sat around talking and playing with sparks the dog who seemed to have infinite energy!
We wrapped up our conversation and went to bed. After about 20 minutes we agreed that the mattress we had left at home was a good idea and it would have made the outback ground much softer...
Morning arrived and what a lovely morning it was. So it should be for Australia day! We thought it perfect to have a drive around to see what there was to see. Deb had recommended a beach which supposedly had the wightest sand in the world. We got there, opened the car door and thought it was a little chilly. We sat on the beach as it began to rain. Wall.E ran inside his bag before he got rusty. We wrapped up and went back to the car. We stopped via Coles to grab some sausages and eggs for tonight's consumption and headed back to the campsite. Arriving at the campsite it was glorious sunshine so we elected to go for a swim in the river. We got out and were knackered so went for a sleep in the tent.
A couple of hours later we awoke and had a walk down to the boat ramp where there were some rather exotic boats being dropped in the water. These were all toys rather than cruisers.
A fast boat is an understatement. some rather spoilt kids then climbed aboard and went water skiing up and down the river. This made us rather sick so we left and retired to our tent. We decided it was time for dinner so cooked up some sausages and had a sausage sandwich. We went to bed rather early and tried to get a good nights sleep on the ground. We had prepared a little for tonight by laying towels and clothes on the floor to dampen the floor a little. We awoke to a beautiful morning with the mist rising off the river and fish eating the flies skimming across the water. We cooked up some eggs and tucked in. 20 mins later the friendly man from next door came around and asked would we like some bacon and eggs if he cooked it? Rather surprised we accepted and we had a second feast of bacon and eggs, I had 2 eggs as did Laura, and I had 5 rashers of bacon while Laura had 3. There were 5 eggs left on the stove and a pile of bacon, sparks the dig did well out of that along with the kookaburras! As it turns out they are quite fond of bacon too! We packed up our tent and hit the road. today we were planing on going back up the country as we are starting our journey to cairns. We started a drive to see a geyser! Turning the corner we hit solid traffic. This was rather unusual for australia! We sat in it for half an hour before we got bored and Laura cracked out the map. We decided to skip that and head through Kangaroo Valley. As it turned out this was a good call. It was one of the most beautiful drives we have ever done along a piece of draped tarmac spaghetti along the side of a Mountain. According to the satnav we were nearly at 800meters so were relatively high. The view was spectacular. We saw a lookout point and decided we couldent not see it. The cheeky people at the Australian Natural park society wanted $3 for me to park my car!! We decided not to so we dumped the car and ran away. My logic is that my car is registered in Western Australia so any fines I get will go to a PO BOX many thousands of miles away. Good luck getting my money hahahahaha!
This is what we didn't pay to see. It was Rather beautiful.
Scenery admired we jumped back in my car with no evidence of a ticket and ran from the scene of the crime. We took the most scenic route back that we could as the highway is just so boring. It may take 20 mins more but its just a nicer drive. We arrived back home and stayed the night in a very comfy bed and had a brilliant nights sleep, ready for the days of planning tomorrow!
A couple of hours later we awoke and had a walk down to the boat ramp where there were some rather exotic boats being dropped in the water. These were all toys rather than cruisers.
A fast boat is an understatement. some rather spoilt kids then climbed aboard and went water skiing up and down the river. This made us rather sick so we left and retired to our tent. We decided it was time for dinner so cooked up some sausages and had a sausage sandwich. We went to bed rather early and tried to get a good nights sleep on the ground. We had prepared a little for tonight by laying towels and clothes on the floor to dampen the floor a little. We awoke to a beautiful morning with the mist rising off the river and fish eating the flies skimming across the water. We cooked up some eggs and tucked in. 20 mins later the friendly man from next door came around and asked would we like some bacon and eggs if he cooked it? Rather surprised we accepted and we had a second feast of bacon and eggs, I had 2 eggs as did Laura, and I had 5 rashers of bacon while Laura had 3. There were 5 eggs left on the stove and a pile of bacon, sparks the dig did well out of that along with the kookaburras! As it turns out they are quite fond of bacon too! We packed up our tent and hit the road. today we were planing on going back up the country as we are starting our journey to cairns. We started a drive to see a geyser! Turning the corner we hit solid traffic. This was rather unusual for australia! We sat in it for half an hour before we got bored and Laura cracked out the map. We decided to skip that and head through Kangaroo Valley. As it turned out this was a good call. It was one of the most beautiful drives we have ever done along a piece of draped tarmac spaghetti along the side of a Mountain. According to the satnav we were nearly at 800meters so were relatively high. The view was spectacular. We saw a lookout point and decided we couldent not see it. The cheeky people at the Australian Natural park society wanted $3 for me to park my car!! We decided not to so we dumped the car and ran away. My logic is that my car is registered in Western Australia so any fines I get will go to a PO BOX many thousands of miles away. Good luck getting my money hahahahaha!
This is what we didn't pay to see. It was Rather beautiful.
Scenery admired we jumped back in my car with no evidence of a ticket and ran from the scene of the crime. We took the most scenic route back that we could as the highway is just so boring. It may take 20 mins more but its just a nicer drive. We arrived back home and stayed the night in a very comfy bed and had a brilliant nights sleep, ready for the days of planning tomorrow!
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