I woke and potted around the van while Rod took the batteries over to the wharfs to charge. I cooked up some bacon and eggs and went for a nice hot shower. It was still cool but not as cold as yesterday.
We met up with Shane & Jayne again, and the girls and headed for Freycinet NP. We pulled into Friendly’s Beach and had a look around, decided to head up towards the paid camp spot but they were booked out. The lady at the information told us about another free camp at River and Rocks Rd – so we left and headed for it.
We set up and eyed off the camp fire pit...went for a quick walk along the beach front, if you called it that. Mitchell, Rhys and Tiffany played some games and then ran around playing, was very nice to see. We all collected firewood and settled around the fire a cuppa and chat. Very nice. Oh camp fires how I have missed you.
The next day we woke up, had breakfast, packed up and headed for Wineglass Bay Lookout; a 1 ½ hour walk. The day was perfect. Clear blue skies, little wind, magic. I even got to wear a shirt and shorts – no jumpers!
We completed the walk, including a good stop at the top in just 65 minutes; however at some point going up I did think I was going to die. LOL. Yes Leonie, there were lots of stairs. Probably not as many as doing the 11km walk but enough.
Along the walk there were many nice outlooks towards Coles Bay, some amazing rock formations including very big rocks balancing somehow and some birds. The lookout was spectacular. As the sun was out and shining the water looked electric blue and very calm and very inviting for the boat! The kids (Mitchell, Rhys and Tiffany) basically ran up and down the whole bloody walk. When we returned to the carpark we found the three of them patting a wallaby.
We headed for Bicheno and stopped in the park for lunch. We drove around the esplanade seeing the Golch (a rock in the water) and the Blowhole. We left and headed north not really knowing where we might camp; however we needed to charge up so unfortunately we had to pay for a caravan park! I am sure Shane & Jayne had a magical free camp along the waterfront.
We ended up at St. Helens Hillcrest Van Park, one written in my notes as recommended. It was very ordinary if you ask me. But all we wanted was a good hot shower and power and we were off the next day.
Rod potted around outside doing car maintenance and I read some more of my book and made dinner.
PHOTOS: Freycinet & Bicheno
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