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Happiness Is The Road
We got up fairly early today and had a leisurely breakfast and made the most of the lovely view before leaving at about 10am. When I went to the loo this morning I noticed something written on the back of a camper van. It was hilarious and really made me laugh. It said 'sure beats delivering parcels'!!!!! I should have this on the back of my camper. This is most definitely the life, away from those stressful parcels. We first of all went to Coles to stock up on food. We tried to get some bacon that doesn't contain either sugar or sucrose. We failed. Why do they have to put sugar in bacon??? Our search for sugar free bacon will continue. Our diets are now completely sugar free but it makes shopping for food difficult as sugar (poison) is in so many things you wouldn't expect it to be in. We are having to read ingredient labels very carefully. After Coles we went to get some beer from the drive thru Bottle Shop. This is the first time Jay has driven into a Bottle Shop (Off Licence) and she loved it. It's such a great idea. You drive into the shop and they serve you at your vehicle window. We then drove through the Adelaide suburbs to the Freeway and left Adelaide. Our destination today is the Coorong National Park. The Coorong is a lagoon landscape stretching over 100km's along the coast. It's a complex series of soaks and salt pans separated from the sea by sand dunes. The name Coorong derives from the Aboriginal word Karangk meaning long neck. We stopped on the way for lunch at Meningie and then we carried on to the Coorong and to Parnkna Point where there was a camp ground. It was down a bit of a dirt road but well worth it for the views. There were two camp areas to choose from and we got a spot right on the lagoon. There were pelicans to watch and it was lovely. There were no showers here and the toilets were about a 10 minute walk away. This was really testing Jay and throwing her in at the deep end. We both had to pee in the bushes, which was a first for Jay but she coped admirably. I was well impressed with her! The sunset here was beautiful and we had a lovely tea admiring the view. When it went dark we snugged in for the night. Jay was a bit frightened as it was very remote here and quiet. There were other people camping here though so we weren't on our own. This didn't stop Jay having visions of some axe wielding maniac banging on the van in the middle of the night! Nite nite and sweet dreams.
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