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Published: February 21st 2010
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The Ferry
Possibly Australia's smallest car and passenger ferry Apologies but this blog should have gone in before the Blue Mountains one.
We drove further down the coast from Port Macquarie to Myall Lakes National Park. The drive was pleasant and took just over 2hrs. To get into the Park from the Northern end we had to catch a ferry. This is probably the smallest ferry and shortest trip we will ever take. The ferry couldn’t have taken more than 4 cars and the whole trip was probably less than 100m.
The national park consists of a number of lakes and also takes in about 20km of coastline. There are a number of campsites located throughout the park. You aren’t able to book any campsites so I was a bit worried in case they were all full up. This was a needless concern as we headed to the biggest campground and found it half empty. We looked at the information board and saw that there was another campground with a swimming area in one of the lakes. We headed over to the White Tree Bay campground and found it completely empty. It was a great site, right on the lake, peaceful and only the 2 of us. Whilst
Local Wildlife
Friendly gecko saying hello we were setting up camp in glorious sunshine Sandra spotted some of the local wildlife, Guanas. We must have counted about 5 guanas. These weren’t just little gecko type lizards. Each of these things must have been at least 4 feet long and they weren’t shy either. 1 in particular got quite up close and personal with our campsite and Sandra’s shoes in particular.
We spent the rest of the afternoon swimming in the lake and took a walk along the beach. The sea was a bit rough so we decided to stick to swimming in the lake. Whilst the water didn’t get very deep it was nice and cool in patches and great for relaxing in and just passing the time away. That evening we made supper and spotted a dingo in the dark. This ensured we stayed in our tents for the rest of the night. The next day we did a couple of walks in the park. The 1st walk was to an old fishing village. The walked meander next to the lake but in the end the fishing village wasn’t much to right home about. The next walk we did was to a place called
Locals part 2
Yes - they do climb trees Johnsons Lookout. The park information said the walk was about 4km so we set out with eager anticipation of the glorious visual splendour we were imminently about to observe. It turned out that it was 4km to the lookout and then 4km back. It was hot and we walked in the open under the midday sun. The last 20 minutes of the walk was all uphill to the lookout. To say we were slightly underwhelmed when we got there would be an understatement. It wasn’t so much of a lookout but more of a clearing in the woods. If you hunched down and looked hard you could just see a lake through the trees.
By the time we got back to the car we had had enough of walking and decided it was another great day to spend relaxing in the lake. The 2 days we have spent in Myall Lakes National Park have been great. The scenery has been wonderful and it was great seemingly having the whole park to ourselves. Next we head back to Sydney. After having spent the last 3 weeks with relatively few people around us, Sydney may be bit of a shock to
Evening over the lake
The view from our tent the system.
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