Nicola had the Toyota because it has Sat Nav and this got us up to Britz
Rentals where we would pick up the motor home. Trev once again made do with the white car. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, but when you’re used to driving a brand new motor, a fifteen year old Mitsubishi Magna estate is not quite the same….
So all checks were made and we loaded up the motor home with enough clothes for a month. But wait, we’re only away for 9 days!
The “van” was a VW works bus conversion. It had a shower, toilet, 3-ring gas cooker, extraction over the cooker. A/C, a wardrobe, sink, fridge, all the usual bits and pieces to be found in a caravan.
Our first call was to be Wilsons Promontory, Tidal River. Daisy the satnav said 200kms and 3 hours 7 minutes. Aye right. This was our first outing and if we did less than 300kms it would be a miracle. We did alright; it was only 244.5 kms door to gate.
The drive down was mainly through state forests and not a whole lot of interesting stuff to look at. I thought we might do better to be more thorough in our preparation so that there would be something of interest to see.
On arriving at the gates of the park, we were told there were no sites free. After a wee bit of chat I discovered one of the two girls had recently been to Ireland on a trip, and in fact they had just found a spare site. They keep some sites for out of state or overseas visitors. Jolly good job as well, even as we woke up the following morning there was still a spare site beside us!
This is the their web site. The park has 50,500 hectares, gets 400,000 visitors a year.
There are lots of different walks, Squeaky Beach, is a nice, and interesting place to call in at. Loads of info can be found at their web site above.
The first part of the site is where the shop, café, and office are found. We decided to visit the shop, but as time was wearing on, about 6pm, the shop was quite low on produce except for frozen stuff - This may have been because it was 32kms deep in the forest. The staff was quite low on customer service but we weren’t at all surprised. There are 480 sites, and all but one taken, hundreds of kids, no alcohol for sale, people on their holiday with the holidaymakers not being very friendly to the staff.
Anyway, we got a hot lamb roll and a hot beef roll, which was very yummy. We went and parked up.
The campsite is a bird watchers paradise; before we went to bed we watched the blue robins, Rosella’s and kites. We crawled into bed eventually at 10.15pm. It wasn’t a very compfy first night, we still had to get used to the 4 in thick mattress but we were knackered.
The site cost $23 including power. The site wasn’t scored very highly as it was a bit run down and dusty but then it is nearing the end of the season.
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