Tonight we’re in Port Fairy, just west of Warrnambool and just before the Great Ocean Road. We liked Port Fairy enough to stay here a second night. It’s yet another very pretty spot on the coast and a great place to chill out again before more travelling.
From Adelaide, we’ve headed south and are aiming for the Great Ocean Road. Night one out of Adelaide was spent at a beautiful spot on the shores of Lake Albert in the Coorong called Meningie. Our van site was metres away from the water’s edge and we were surrounded by the birdlife of the waterways – pelicans, ducks, ibis, cormorants. The next night was a free camp at place called Dartmoor in Victoria, so we’d left SA behind again. Dartmoor is situated on the junction of the Glenelg and Crawford Rivers and has several historic sites in the town, including the starting point of an expedition led by Major Mitchell. It also was the home of the bulk of Australia’s mosquitoes. The trek from the van to the less than pleasant drop dunnies was made even less pleasant for having to run the gauntlet of these mosquitoes. It also was another campsite where we got to experience once again the very common phenomenon of lonely camper syndrome. This occurs when you are camped on your own in a very large camping reserve with hundreds of square metres of empty camping space and another camper turns up and feels the need to camp as close to you as they are able to comfortably get. I suppose I should learn to enjoy sharing my intimate camping experiences with these lonely souls. Tonight we’re in Port Fairy, just west of Warrnambool and just before the Great Ocean Road. We liked Port Fairy enough to stay here a second night. It’s yet another very pretty spot on the coast and a great place to chill out again before more travelling.
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