I'm sitting in the passenger's seat of Veronica, our ravishingly red Toyota Torago outside of a hostel in Bateman's Bay, a very small beach town on the south-east coast of New South Wales (NSW). It's raining and it's cold, but our spirits are high!
Itinerary:
Patrick, Veronica and I left Melbourne on Monday early afternoon, skirting the south-eastern coast of the state of Victoria up to NSW. After three days of driving, we'll hit Sydney by the end of the day today, where we'll relax (kind of) for a couple days before continuing up north.
Highlights:
South-eastern Victoria was all pasture land and small mountains. When you're not staring at a field smattered with cows, you're passing through thick national park. We stopped at a most beautiful site, Wingan Inlet in Croajingalong NP, and took a couple hour break, walking through a mangrove of tall thin trees and eventually reaching a picturesque, deserted beach.
Small beach-bum towns with barely a pub and a supermarket, each about 30k away from each other. Not much there at all except for two beauties obviously overlooked by tourists -- Tathra and Bermajui. Every town is blink-and-you'll-miss-it, surrounded by pastureland or thick forest. I've consistently found that these villages pale in comparison to the natural beauty that they abut.
OK I'm running out of time so that's all for now... everything is going great, Patrick and I are perfect traveling buddies and we're not even sick of each other yet! More later on...
check out photos here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2086128&l=11e6a&id=1705228
here: (all of buildings in Melbourne)
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2086322&l=33411&id=1705228
and here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2086764&l=b1996&id=1705228
