Well now, we have just left possibly the best national park in the history of the world! A wee place a couple of hours south of Melbourne called Wilson's Promontory National Park.

We left Lakes Entrance on Friday morning to begin our drive to the park, the latter of which was gorgeous as we drove forty-six kilometres through the park and along the coast. We arrived and got ourselves set up by early afternoon and were quite surprised by the number of people who were camping there as it has been pretty much just us most of the way down the coast.

After a spot of dinner we spent the rest of the evening relaxing and catching up on our journal as we appear to have got a little bit behind again! All while we waited for it to get dark to see if the Aussies had been lying to us once again! We've heard so many things like 'oh if you stay here you'll see koalas' lies, lies and more lies. This time we were told we would have wombats wondering around, something we haven't seen many of as they are endangered in the north.

So we were lying minding our own business with all the doors and windows open in the tent (not that we could see anything as it was pitch black!) and we heard this wee munching noise. We didn't think much too it until after a while it stared again and David was convinced it was something so I looked outside and there was a wee fat wombat wondering past our tent! It took about ten minutes to convince David as he couldn't see it and therefore obviously it couldn't have been there! So out we got into the freezing cold equipped with touch, and low and behold, there was a wombat, wondering along without a care in the world stuffing his face.

Action station! David Bailey got his tripod and the SLR while I tried to find the other camera and video camera. Yes yes, we should have been ready but as mentioned before, such promises of wildlife are usually lies.

So David was out doing his bit, torch in one hand, camera clicking with the other, I ran around like a head case finding the other two (not sure why as the poor thing really wasn't going anywhere very fast!) Once the other camera was located (yes we need two - it has a better flash) I went to take a couple of snaps and...no battery, I managed three. Plan B, get the video camera, it starts flashing that the tape is full...it's a new tape...oh no, it had been dropped on top of a mountain and turned itself on and recorded darkness. So rewind the tape and what do we find...not much battery!

Despite the issues we managed to get plenty of photos and a bit on the video footage. The next morning the first thing to do was charge the camera and video camera ready for the next night.

Now you might think we looked a little odd running around the place but when you compare us to the other groups of people running around with torches shouting 'THERE'S ONE' followed by lots of giggling and more shouting...we really didn't look that out of place. There were loads of the little b*****s, and possums, and everyone seemed just as excited as us to see them. We also saw the biggest kangaroo we've ever seen hopping across behind the wombat. He must have been the height of me (yes I know I'm not very tall but for a kanga, its big!).

The next day was a little calmer! We were visited by a little red and blue parrot in the morning while we had brekkie and then we took ourselves off on a couple of the lookout walks. We spent quite a while just perched on some rocks taking in the view before heading back down to the campsite for a bit more R & R and a spot of dinner.

Our second night was much the same as the first, spent trying to keep warm and watching the wombats, only this time we were a bit more prepared and even had battery in the cameras.

We left this morning after one last visit from our little parrot friend and are now in Venus Bay which is pretty much an internet and washing stop! Tomorrow we will head on again to Philip Island.