We have been touring around a bit for two days now as there
was no surf to be found around Melbourne and we had to start making some
distance. We stopped yesterday at ninety mile beach, at a free campsite for the
first time and are happily surprised by the quality of the place. There are a
number of different campsites you can just pull in and make camp, under the
trees. You are allowed to make a campfire as long as there are no warnings for
high risk for bush fire and there are toilets and usually a water tap with rain
water. The only thing they usually don’t have are showers, so there are only so
many days you can stay on those before the smell of one another drives you to a
paId one(I’m joking by the way). It’s a really pretty place and the beach is
very pretty and honours its name as golden beach by it’s beautiful colour. As we walk back behind the dunes we spot a
gigantic porcupine , who is by no means intimidated by us as he just goes on
with digging it’s hole while Graham pokes it, it is a very funny sight.
And then we spot them, the kangaroos! I nearly missed them
as they were grazing in the front lawn of a house in such a relaxed manner that
I spotted them out of the corner of my eye, thinking; ah look some domestic
house kangaroos in the front lawn. A bit like spotting a horse really. Before my mind comprehended the fact that it
was very unlikely. They are massive and have this very human expression over
them. They look a bit out of proportion like a women with giant hips and really
small shoulders when they stand on their hind legs, with the front legs hanging
a bit said to the side as if saying; I know, I’m only rudimentary. It’s a group
of three and I guess a male and two females by their sizes. The male is about
the height of me, but the females a lot shorter. They do look like they can get
ugly if they don’t like you though, even though they are not aggressive animals,
they are known for their strength in their hind legs. After having a mutual
stare of about 5 minutes they decide it’s time to hop off. Which is the
funniest thing to see really. I can’t believe I spotted kangaroos in the wild.
Hopefully a koala will soon follow.
After ninety mile beach we head up to Marlo and camp in the
bush, where we are soon joined by a family with two young kids, one is 1 year
old and the other 2,5. They have a car and a campervan and have been touring
Australia like that for 20 weeks now the dad tells Graham. Sounds like a pretty
mad adventure.
