Hawk's Nest - 2 April 2014

After our walk this morning and brekkie, we went for a drive to Mungo Brush, which is north of Hawk's Nest a few kms. The road follows the coast and up through the Myall Lakes National Park. At the end of the road on this side of the Lakes are a couple of campsites. From the looks of it, it is the National Parks fee plus $10 for 2 adults. There is a ferry which takes you (and your car) over to the other side of the lake and you can then drive on to Buledelah. You can also continue on up the coast on 4WD track. The campsite right at the ferry would have cost us $7/car for the day or part thereof, which would have been $14 as we both drove our cars. We have all stuff in the back seat and Margie's back seat was down as she had Mum's walker in the back.

We drove back down the road a couple of minutes to Banksia Green campground which was a lovely spot. There was a caravan and camper trailer set up there. It was a lovely grassy area with drop toilets but no drinking water. We used the back of our ute as the table. I just happened to look over at one of the grassy tent sites right next to the car and there was a goanna sprawled out. We weren't sure if it was dead or asleep! We then saw it breathe. It was comatose for about 10 minutes before it gave a bit of a stretch and then started heading our way. Bruce had to throw some small pebbles at it to make it change direction. It must have smelt our scones and pumpkin cake! It was either a very old goanna as it moved very slowly, or it had a full stomach (maybe some bush rats).

 

Margie and I went for a walk up the track and over the sand dunes to look out over the water and spotted some dolphins swimming along close to the beach.

 

 

When we have our solar installed on the van we will be able to stay in places like this. It was lovely.

 

On our way back to the van, we drove round the area Margie and I had walked the afternoon before and showed Mum and Bruce the Lakes.

 

We had lunch at the van sitting under the trees, followed by Scrabble.

 

While we were playing Scrabble, we had magpies, butcher birds and rabbits all around us. The birds came up really close to us, but not the rabbits.

 

After a game of Scrabble, we walked down to the local shop, Mum being pushed in the wheelchair, to get an ice cream. The wheelchair has been great for Mum, rather than relying on just her walker. We can take her places further away.

 

After dinner, we had more games of Rummikub before calling it a night, our last in Hawk's Nest.