Onwards to Reeves Beach, we drive in and its a lovely spot, in the middle of the countryside surrounded by paddocks with dairy cows, big blue skies and temp increasing. We drive thru and it looks to be full, then upon closer inspection we notice that it looks as though a whole heap of locals have bought down their "clapped" out vans and dropped 'em off, cheap, permanent holiday home. Its like a run down ghost town, there were a few people round, and some actually lived there. We backed out slowly as to not attract attention and, on the way found the "tourist" spot, nice grassy lawn, big gums and beach access thru the dunes. (hadnt been spoilt by the locals)
We jump out to check out the beach, it was awesome, so we decided to hang tight on the tourist side and set up. There were a few people round so thought we'd be safe and not "attacked" by the locals.
Well wish we tried the toliet before we decided to stay.... this was the long drop from Hell (even writing this its coming back to haunt me) Nick was talking to a few of the people who had decided to live permanently there (friendly chap he is) and they were saying that there was no lock on the door, privacy concerns and all that, so they tried to screw one on and couldn't stand the smell any longer and screwed it on crocked, in a bid to get outta there. When he repeated this to me i just wondered why they had chosen the closest site to the long drop to call home.... Its times like this i long for our Porta Potti (but then i actually wouldn't really want to carry around our shite, and break it down with chemicals and all that) so it was really just a fleeting thought...
We ended up spending a couple of nights there, the beach made up for at the shortcomings. Had lovely long walks and met some cool tourists. We decided that we didn't really want to spend the long weekend there though....
We did some more research and found what looked to be promising Golden sands Beach. On some information we had gotten from a i booth it apparently had free hot showers!!!! So off we go on the way we discovered Australia oldest fully operational Swing Bridge. What an amazing invention.
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| Some Information about the Bridge (if your interested) |
We then headed on and found our way to Golden beach ( not free showers, but $4 for 5 minutes) and checked out Paradise Beach, had a swim and decided that there were way too many people camped in such a little spot, and it would only get fuller as the long weekend was approaching( the long drops were much better mind you)
So we headed down to Golden Sands Beach and found an amazing spot, with an equally great beach, and it was large enough that even if it became full, there would still be enough space for us and the girlie's.
So we set up, well planned by arriving on the Thursday we had the pick of the spots, and got the camp closest to the beach walkway through the dunes. The sand was dirty though as too many people had lit campfires everywhere. So Mr Man went and carried a heap of sand to extend our path to Snail, so we wouldn't bring dirt inside (wish i took a photo) We fed the girlie's and put our rubbish outside and headed off to sleep.... Sahara and Delta ran out barking a few times throughout the night, but we had nothing to worry about as it was an empty camp.
Anyways we got up on Friday and i go the feed the girlie's and ask Nick if he had moved Delta food container." Of course not" was the answer i received "Why would i do that?" When i tried to explain that it wasn't where i left it the night before Nick thought i was spinning. He wouldn't believe me that it had gone missing, saying things like who would take it.. etc?? So Nearly half an hour passes by and Nick asks me "What have you done with the rubbish bag?" "Why?" "Its gone missing".... Weird.... Any ideas who would take the dog food container and a bag of rubbish?? Needless to say he no longer doubted me!
We had a great Friday, Nick on the beach fishing. Swimming, napping and reading for me. We even made a shelter and spent the whole afternoon down by the water.
We all had a great day, family fun!!
Then the people started to arrive Friday night.... Soon enough we were not alone anymore and had a few mobs of campers round us. Not too bad though, still had a fair space between us and the next campers behind us.... shouldn't speak too soon......
Saturday afternoon, round 3pm See's a bloody tribe of children (8 +) and 3 sets of parents rock up looking for a spot and they decide that camping right behind us/ on top of us is the way to go. Literally!! We look out and they have pegged 3 tents in the space of 2 car parks.(that's like 14 people rocking up on our back door) with one of the tents pegged in on top of our tarp, that was giving us a bit of privacy from the mob behind (bunch on uni students or something smashing beer bongs need i say more) We wondered if these people had heard of personal space. (wish i took a photo here too, but they did not leave their campsite, barely to even go to the beach)
So that brings Sunday.... guess what we did?? Another beach day !!! We actually made a sandcastle and called her Myrtle. Yes, we needed to get away from our campsite, we had about had enough, and didn't want to scare the little children. (you see then we would have to hear the nightmares) (not ready yet)
Needless to say we got woken up early Monday morning to "pack up time" and thought we need to get out of here also... So off to pay for a shower (first one in Vic) then off we went
We stopped into Sale and did a load or 3 of laundry and a local recommended spending the night at Marley Pt. Great Spot Next to a Boat club and a large lake. The girls loved it as there was lots of rabbit holes around and Delta could actually fit in them, so it was like a big amusement park for dogs! . Sahara came back looking like an Goth (eye make up) see below....
Delta does not star in any pictures as she is in the bad books because we "lost" her for 45 minutes that night, then when we had packed up ready to go we took them for a walk and let her off the lead to burn off some energy and we had to wait for an hour and a half till we could find her and go. (Nick was threatening leaving her( though i really doubt that).) We discovered that she had found the "Game Park" next door that was off limits for dogs, who knows what she got up to in there???
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