Day 2
Distance from Origin 999km
Distance to Destination 3,841km
The drive from Lakes Entrance to Wilson's Prom is about 287km. We planned to be here by lunch time so we could take in a walk around the National Park before sunset.
We stopped to pick up some shopping as the guide book says to bring your own food into the park. I was trying to keep it relatively healthy, fruit snacks etc.... Dad on the other hand kept bringing over pastries and asking about biscuits! We were still to have breakfast and couldn't find anywhere to eat so we resorted to an old favourite and I made rolls and banana (with lurpak!) in the front seat while dad drove.
Dad likes to stop and take A LOT of photos so the drive took slightly longer than planned but we arrived here around 2.30 and pitched the tent. We did pass one nice town called Foster on the way which seemed to have a little bit of life about it. I may try to persuade Dad to go back there for breakfast this morning.
We set off at 3.30 to walk around the park and it doesn't disappoint. The park sits on a peninsula so is surrounded by coastline which is quite stunning in parts. There's lots of wildlife and we managed to catch a few wallabies and a couple of wombats on camera. They are obviously used to people being around as they seemed quite unperturbed by our presence.
The sun goes down by around 6pm and there are no stores or cafés around :( so there is little to do in the evenings. If we had come prepared it wouldn't have been a big deal.... There are bbqs for cooking dinner and nice picnic areas. As it was I did some long overdue reading for Uni and Dad sorted through his thousands of pictures (across 3 different cameras).
So..... After a very long and windy night in the tent we are up and about to set off again. Today we are going to head round past Melbourne to make a start on the great ocean road.
Sorry I'll have to wait until we get to some decent wifi to load more pics cause it's killing my 3G.
Bye for now x
