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Published: February 10th 2010
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Thursday 25th June, 2009. After a lovely birthday breakfast with our son Tim and his family, we finally hit the road. Making it to the south side of Sydney for our first night deserved a celebration. A year of planning, organisation and hard work and we are starting our new lifestyle. It’s a great feeling, I can tell you! After a scrumptious meal at a restaurant in Berry, we woke to the news of Michael Jackson’s passing. We travelled for a few more days to arrive at Merimbula to meet up with our daughter Mel, her husband Gareth, and their Canadian friend Orianna, who were all set for a 6km bushwalk in Bournda National Park (did I forget to mention that Mel is 9 months pregnant???? ) The look of joy when our visitor saw a mob of kangaroos and wallabies, and the squeal of terror when she spotted a spider in the toilet, were highlights of the day.
Waiting for a baby to be born can be quite a boring process, but not so! We helped out with walking the 2 dogs through the bush near where Mel and Gareth live, shopping in Bega, and collecting firewood - we
like to keep busy and being helpful. Mel and Gareth introduced us to the TV show called MasterChef - now we’re hooked too! Go Julie! To celebrate my birthday (thanks to those of you who sent messages or called) we enjoyed a delicious (and filling) late breakfast, to be followed by a very yummy lunch at the Seahorse Inn at Boydtown. We made our way back to the house to stoke the fire, watch a movie and then stay up till midnight playing a favourite card game called “Grass”. Gareth won, of course.
After living on the driveway for a week it was time for a change of view, so a caravan park in Eden was our next location for 2 nights. The new technologies we have needed to learn have been intriguing, but most curious to us is how some people in the caravan and motorhome industry DO’NT HAVE A CLUE about some of the basics! Large motorhomes like ours have holding tanks for waste water. When we stayed at Tathra, we found we couldn’t dispose our waste water because there was no dump point for gravity-draining holding tanks. Oh well, we’ll make sure before we book into
Mallacoota Foreshore Caravan Park
A great place to stay despite the winter chill the next caravan park. We asked the appropriate questions and explained our concerns. Yes, indeed they had a dump point. The lady kindly showed us on the map, where the appropriate facility was located. Peter and I were gobsmacked to find the “Dump Point” in a little shed at the end of the amenities block. As Peter tried calmly to explain to me, this system is simply no good for how our system operates. Back to the lady in pastel pink in the park office. She had NO comprehension of what our requirements were. “Most motorhomes have the cassette system …..” was her belief. After consultation with her husband, he came out to assist. Thank heavens for male ingenuity (yes, Wendy is writing this report). With a bit of bending of health regulations, we emptied our tanks and then went to another area in the park to find a sunny spot for our 2-night stay.
Mel brought the dogs for a play on the beach and after a glowing recommendation from Mel, we made our way to Mallacoota Foreshore Holiday Park. We crossed the Victorian border and made our way east from Genoa along the winding road through forests
Kangaroos in the park
At first, we thought they were statues and farmland. MFHP lived up to its reputation. Mallacoota is a sleepy little holiday village, in the most amazing location with all services provided, - except that the fish shop is only open Friday, Saturday and Sunday. To top it all off, we were able to witness (and capture) the most amazing moonrise reflecting over the wet sand and the calm water. Magic moment no. 1
Next morning was time for our first bike ride in a long time. First on the agenda was to check out the size of this caravan park. Over 600 sites and at Christmas time is 100% full, catering for 2000 people. (Glad we’re here in the “low season”). It’s a huge place with lots of amazing camp sites to choose from. In the top part of the park, we passed a mob of kangaroos standing like statues under a huge tree. (Magic moment no.2) Today the people in the office told us there was a koala wandering around last week. As the name implies, the park is on the edge of the water, the fishing is meant to “go off” in summer, although we could catch a feed without a doubt at this time of the year. Must get that fishing gear out of storage! We really miss our kayak right now too. Miles and miles of waterways to explore. We had intended to head back to Eden today, but as the baby is in no hurry to appear, we have decided to stay for another 2 nights. (We’re in no hurry, either!)
As I write this, we have been away from the Central Coast for 2 weeks and are missing you all very much, but almost every day we ask each other tongue-in-cheek, “Are you having fun yet?” We are!
The name on a van here in this park is “Leisure Technicians” - I love it.
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