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Happiness Is The Road
We are on the move again today. After breakfast we packed up and left at 10. This was our last night in South Australia. The border with Victoria was only about 30 kilometres away and it didn't take us long to get there. At the border we passed from Central Standard Time to Eastern Standard time and had to put our clocks forward by half an hour. We are now 11 hours ahead of the UK. The roads in South Australia are better than Victoria. The roads here are bumpier and some riddled with pot holes. Victoria also seems a little bit scruffy and not as well cared for as its neighbour. We stopped off at the first town in Victoria, Nelson, to use the facilities and then we headed on to Cape Bridgewater. On the way Jay spotted an emu in a field right by the side of the road. This was Jay's first emu and we stopped to take some photos. It took about an hour to get to Cape Bridgewater and the scenery there was stunning. A beautiful bay with the most amazing white sanded beach. This was the best beach Jay has seen up to now. We parked up and went for a walk and paddle along the beach. The sea was very clear and warm. We both felt very free and happy. After this we drove along to the end of the cape to see the Blow Holes and the Petrified Forest. There was a short walk to the Blow Holes which were incredible to see. The sea was at it's majestic best. The power of the ocean was awesome as the waves crashed against the rocks causing the spay to blow through. It was mesmerising to watch and we stayed here for ages. We then went to see the Petrified Forest. It did seem scared to see us so we didn't stay long and went back to the camper! What we noticed whilst here was that everybody seemed miserable, especially the kids who had long faces, were throwing tantrums and complaining that it was boring. We seemed to be the only happy people there, walking hand in hand and laughing. After that as time was getting on we needed to get some food and then find a camp site. We drove into Portland and found a Woolworths. We got everything we needed except bread. We are avoiding bread that contains the poisons, vegetable oil and sugar. All the bread in Woolworths had one or both!. Back in South Australia Woolworths had loads of sour dough bread containing neither but not here. Why does bread have to contain sugar? It's completely mental. Just part of the conspiracy to slowly poison us all I suppose. We then went to an independent bakery over the road and asked the nice girl if they had sugarless and vegetable oil free bread. She printed off the ingredients of all the loaves and found us a Turkish Loaf which was sugar free and made with olive oil. She probably didn't understand why we had such an aversion to vegetable oil! Shopping done we then went to find the camp site. We had chosen to go to the Henty Bay Caravan Park just down the road on the coast. Their web site stated and I quote 'So.....come and meet some of the locals including koalas, seals, wallabies and black cockatoos'. Jay hasn't seen any wallabies yet so on the promise of this veritable concoction of wildlife we checked in. The place seemed okay from the road and the girl on reception was nice enough. She took our details and she asked where on the site we would like to go. We had a choice of near the beach or in the 'bush' section amongst trees. I asked her where it would be quietest and she said in the 'bush'. She said that there was nobody else up there at the moment and we would have it to ourselves. I quizzed her about the wildlife and asked her if there were any wallabies. She avoided answering this question properly and just told me that there were a lot of rabbits! She then said that they had one koala but that he hadn't been seen today! She showed me three pictures of him and he looked too good to be true. This wasn't looking good but it was too late to look for something else. At least it would be quiet we thought. So we drove off through the camp to the wooded 'bush' area at the back. On our way in we were stared at by a couple sat outside their tent. I don't think we looked local enough! It seemed that strangers were maybe not welcome around these parts. It was beginning to look like an episode of Scooby Doo. We then found our site and discovered that we were not alone as promised but right next to a group of about four adults and six kids. The kids just stared at us and didn't smile. This was a strange place. Anyhow we parked up and plugged in and Jay had a look around for the koala. He was nowhere to be seen. We don't think that this koala existed. From our experience the trees at the site weren't the right type of trees for a koala and the tree bark was too well intact. Koalas strip the bark of the trees they climb in. There was no evidence of wallabies either. There was no wallaby poo on the ground and no sign of them hopping around.There were no black cockatoos and we didn't even see a sodding rabbit! The only wildlife we saw was a wasp! We went for a walk to the beach section of the website and thought that we'd stumbled upon a Rab C Nesbitt convention. The place was filled with the most common looking people we'd seen anywhere in Australia! (Even worse than the 9.30am beer swilling men of Kingston SE). They had stuff strewn everywhere and one woman was talking so loudly on a mobile phone she was giving Dom Joly a good run for his money! We felt lucky to have chosen the 'bush' despite the weird neighbours. We carried on to the pathetic bit of sand that they called the beach. It was hardly big enough to swing a cat on never mind house the seals that were promised on the web site. So back to the 'bush' we went. Later on we went on an expedition to the amenities. They were the worst I have come across in Australia. They smelt a bit and weren't clean and one of the shower cubicles looked like someone had left a 'dirty protest' in it. It was caked in mud and dirt. I risked a shower but it was ****. There wasn't much water pressure and every 20 second the warm water turned to an icy blast! We had our tea by the van and had a laugh about the non existent wildlife. The web site was so misleading and we are thinking of telling Trip Advisor. We think that the koala pictures were taken from google. If there ever had been a genuine koala he certainly wouldn't have the sense to hang around here and had probably run off. We half expected to find a stuffed koala nailed to the top of a tree! We had a quiet night without any wildlife noises whatsoever. We didn't even see the wasp again!!!
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