2013 road trip - Day 2
Breakfast was ready-made pancakes, heated in the frypan (we took a toaster but it didn't work on the ute's power). Then another walk to the beach.
Louka had by now adopted the monsters first encountered at The Entrance - they are apparently endangered and need looking after by sympathetic humans.
When we got back to the campsite we found a note on the windscreen - they were about to do aerial spraying for weeds and we had to be out by 11am. This didn't really bother us as we'd have been on our way by then anyway, but I also received an email from the parks staff offering us a free night's stay in the campground any time in the next three months to make up for the inconvenience. Nice!
As we set off we encountered the biggest difficulty of our trip - none of the National Parks were listed in our GPS. We had to rely on sometimes inaccurate written directions to find our campsites. Fortunately Booti Booti, Tuesday night's planned stop, was no trouble to find.
It turned out to be a large grassy area that was mostly very wet from the recent rain.
We found a non-boggy patch to set up camp then tried the walk to the lake. Louka was barefoot and Graham in thongs, while I was wearing trainers and socks. This became unpleasant when the way was covered in 5cm deep water. However, we persevered and found a small graveyard belonging to the homestead that had once been here.
The lake is supposedly very beautiful at sunset, but we decided we didn't really want to be out after dark. It was quite attractive in the afternoon anyway.
Oh, and despite Louka's resistance we put Harry Potter on the CD player. From then on she wanted to listen to nothing else.
Louka had by now adopted the monsters first encountered at The Entrance - they are apparently endangered and need looking after by sympathetic humans.
When we got back to the campsite we found a note on the windscreen - they were about to do aerial spraying for weeds and we had to be out by 11am. This didn't really bother us as we'd have been on our way by then anyway, but I also received an email from the parks staff offering us a free night's stay in the campground any time in the next three months to make up for the inconvenience. Nice!
As we set off we encountered the biggest difficulty of our trip - none of the National Parks were listed in our GPS. We had to rely on sometimes inaccurate written directions to find our campsites. Fortunately Booti Booti, Tuesday night's planned stop, was no trouble to find.
It turned out to be a large grassy area that was mostly very wet from the recent rain.
We found a non-boggy patch to set up camp then tried the walk to the lake. Louka was barefoot and Graham in thongs, while I was wearing trainers and socks. This became unpleasant when the way was covered in 5cm deep water. However, we persevered and found a small graveyard belonging to the homestead that had once been here.
The lake is supposedly very beautiful at sunset, but we decided we didn't really want to be out after dark. It was quite attractive in the afternoon anyway.
Oh, and despite Louka's resistance we put Harry Potter on the CD player. From then on she wanted to listen to nothing else.
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