Last stops before Sydney

Moving north we stopped at Lake Wallaga, near Tilba Tilba followed by Jervis Bay. Both locations had the most wonderful beaches, lakes and wildlife, but the camp sites couldn't have been more different.

At Lake Wallaga we had a lake side pitch amongst trees. We had part of an oil drum to make our own fire pit and across the road was a lovely beach. We took a long walk along to Camel Rock and sat watching the breakers and rock pools. Weather is still quite bracing and windy but this is good for breakers.

Miss Maui at Wallaga Lake

Walk to Camels Rock

On our trips to both locations we stopped off at a couple of Fishing Ports, Bergamui and two days later at Ulladulla. We had fish lunches and both meals were lovely with really fresh fish from the local fishing boats. One fishing boat left Bergamui as we were eating called "Imlay".

Fishing Boat Imlay at Bergamui

Imagine our surprise when walking around the port of Ulldulla a couple of days later we again saw fishing boat "Imlay" again!

Fishing Boat Imlay at Ulladulla

The crew were at the back of the boat, the skipper complaining about stomach ache, a crew member was splicing two large ropes together with a large knife and an extremely rotund crew member was just sitting on the port side. Sue and I stopped to chat and ended up discussing the state of the fishing industry, cost of living, fuel costs and how much smaller catches are these days. Sue dropped into the conversation, we had seen you a couple of days ago at Bergamui, to which the skipper replied "no you didn't, we haven't been in there". Then the crew asked, you sure it wasn't the "Fitzpatrick", that goes in there sometimes and the skipper added, or the "Togarth". Sue said, no I'm sure it was the "Imlay", and as you can see from the above photos, that was actually the case. This prompted another swift reply from the skipper along the lines of "I don't think so Love", at which point I suggested we should probably get going. On leaving, we were both of the same opinion, that it probably was the same boat, but that what ever it was doing in Bergamui was not to be questioned by nosey tourists, unless of course they wanted to be fish bait tomorrow!

On our first evening in Wallaga we enjoyed some prawns we had bought at the fish market that day, with a local bottle of wine.

We visited Central Tilba which was an historic National Trust site. Very quaint and interesting but primarily a tourist attraction with lots of little shops for Sue.

On our last night at Wallaga, we enjoyed a walk by the lake and our oil drum fire, which the guys next door had t start for us, as I had been spending half an hour getting no where. While enjoying the flickering light and warmth, we were joined by a Possum who was extremely inquisitive and likeable.

On our drive to Jervis Bay we stopped at a little coastal inlet called Narooma, where there was a lovely board walk beside the inlet and, more importantly, a great coffee caravan.

After our walk and lunch in Ulladula, we arrived at Jervis Bay. This was a luxuriously appointed campsite, with Spa Villas, astroturf pitches, coffee and breakfast caravan and was completely full. Our pitch was lovely, on a corner overlooking the creek with ducks, pelicans and sea gulls in abundance. Amongst the wildlife were children, lots and lots of children all equipped with bikes, skateboards, scooters, pedal go-karts and electric scooters. A lot of adults here were also equipped with electric scooters. We soon discovered that our corner pitch represented the Piccadilly Circus of this camp site. We were lucky if we could step outside our van without getting run over. Just when we thought it couldn't get any worse, the ice cream van pulled up just across from us. I had an overwhelming desire to get in the van and close all the curtains. That evening they had live music at the coffee van, so the whole site brought their camp chairs and gathered around our pitch for the evening of singing and music. "Aaaaaaargh" "DOH".

The next day we explored the area and went to Hyams Bay, said to have the whitest sand of anywhere. Sue checked this out and it is actually listed in the Guiness Book of Records 2018 as the whitest sand in the world!

That afternoon we hired Kayaks and travelled down the creek towards Huskisson. we didn't get there due to a combination of wind and tide, both of which were against us.

To avoid a repeat of the previous night we decided we would rather walk to the industrial estate! ten minutes from the site. Here we found a great Brewery doing food and drink and it was incredibly busy, but fantastic.

Its sometimes hard to think of new things to do when you are in a camper van for a long time. A big favourite with Oli and Eliza is hide-and-seek. We tried a game of this, but its difficult when the only place you can really hide is in the toilet, so we kept finding each other really quickly. Anyway, we are sure Oil and Eliza will be pleased we have at least tried.

Next stop Sydney. See you all there, especially for the Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb!!!!!!

Lots of love,

Sue & Trev xx