Day 15 – Heading into the wild

The morning was a fairly swift dash to get out of the door at the same time as our fabulous hosts. Thank you again to Ross, Amanda, Samantha and Charlotte for hosting us!

After a quick stop to run some errands and of course collect flower petals we were back on the Bruce Highway. It’s amazing how terrible some caravan drivers really are and not surprising that they give all caravan drivers a bad wrap on the roads.

We hadn’t really worked out our final destination for the day and it was a case of doing some last minute planning on the road. We went past Clairview, which has a dugong sanctuary but the tides were all wrong to see them, so we decided to only make it a lunch stop and move on.

Cape Palmerston was another close contender, however as we started driving there I found an alternate free camp with slightly easier access for our van. Notch Point was the winner and we made our way in along the narrow, bumpy track with a few muddy puddle crossings. One was decent enough to warrant the good old “poke a stick in it to work out the depth and state of the ground underneath” method. The car and van survived the process and we made it to a gorgeous camping area.

We made an initial stop and decided to check the rest of the area out by foot to see if there were any better places to set up camp. On our walk Izzy and Jazzy saw that their friends from 1770 were also parked up here and were so excited to have some friends to play with again!
There were so many beautiful spots to pick from, it was a lovely backdrop to do some work and homework.

As the sun started setting we wondered up to catch up with the other family. The girls were desperate to stay another night and I must say with the views, the calm spot and the idea of not having to pack up in the morning, it was an easy sell!