From Lakes Entrance our aim was to head to Mimosa Rocks National Park and camp for at least one night at one of my favourite camping grounds, Aragunnu. Unfortunately though, the ever present rain was ever present so we thought that Aragunnu would be too wet and unpleasant and that it would be better to have our overnight stop at a van park with hot showers in Tathra instead. We’ve been through Tathra quite a few times in the past but we’ve never actually stayed there. Which we now want to make up for by going back there again more regularly because its a really nice place. With two nights in Tathra, it became another location that we added to our long list of locations where we only planned to stay overnight but ended up staying for longer.
The trip from Lakes Entrance to Tathra was a very strange one and evoked some very mixed feelings. On this leg of our journey we crossed back into NSW and saw the first road sign pointing to Canberra that we’d seen for nearly five months. It was very odd after nearly 20,000km on the road to know that we were now less than a days drive from home.