Mallacoota 17th Oct 200917th Oct 2009

Another slow morning, did a bit of shopping and finished up back in the bakery. Well, we did have to get some bread and the cakes just happen to fall into our bag!!. Apple pie with fresh cream and a piece of Carrot cake, at least they had fruit in them!! After all that we set out to go for a couple of bush walks, but managed to squeeze in a couple of “Geo Caches” first. The first we did was in the bush a bit and hidden under a burnt out log, a big container filled with all sorts of goodies guarded by a herd of mosquitoes!!! You would have loved all the goodies Dante. The second was a micro cache hidden under a very open area, so we had to be careful of “Muggles”. We then set off for our walks. Firstly we went to a short walk down to the upper lake in an area called “Sou West”. A beautiful point out in the lake with a small jetty. We then went to another spot, the name escapes me, but it was a rainforest walk. We saw a lone Koala up a tree near the carpark, and then made our way through the rain forest on the 1 km walk. The first ½ was on a raised platform track, and it was very slippery, the track then headed up hill and the footing was much better. A beautiful place with so many huge gum trees and many songful birds. We then drove to the coast and did a walk called the 3 Beaches walk at Betka Beach. We counted 4 beaches, all very different and only accessable from one to the next at low tide. We had lunch on a rock at the 4th beach and then headed back. A very relaxing walk. We then headed further along the coast to The Secret Beach walk, but we had a look and it was down a steep hill and we weren’t sure what we would find at the end so we gave it a miss. We continued onto Shipwreck Creek camping ground, deep in the Croajingolong NP. It was at the end of about 12km of dirt road, while not really a 4WD track, the Prado did help a lot in getting there and back safely. (And it was heaps fun driving on the narrow windy potholed track). Deb said the wild flowers were pretty as well . The camping ground was VERY basic. Drop toilets were the only luxury out there! Once we got back I went fishing at the first place we went to this morning, no fish, not even a bit, and Deb stayed back at the tent and had a relaxing afternoon reading. We are looking forward to another relaxing day tomorrow. I think I will give the idea of fishing away, doesn’t seem to be any out there. The others in the camping ground aren’t having much luck either, and you can tell a few of them are real old fisho’s, particularly by the way they smell, LOL!!!

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