Packed up very slowly so took us over 2 hours, which included filling the water tanks up....good job it wasn't busy holiday season cos we went past check out time but the place we stayed seemed very relaxed (no boom gate entry, no locks on the bathroom doors etc). We headed to Orbost which was the next 'biggest' town and checked out the TIC, the ladies were very helpful and gave us some maps, a lot of the camps along this coast don't seem to be free...we were told that even bush some bush sites with no toilets or showers were charging $30 a night!! We found a nice camp across from Marlo inlet, Carringel Camp, it was meant to be an honesty box system for $19.70 a night but there were no envelopes for the money to go in so we decided to stay and pay a ranger if he came by ;)
Within 5 mins of setting up camp a gorgeous collie had seemed to have taken a liking to us. She just wanted pats at first, then throwing sticks (which she didn't bring back!), at one point she started sniffing under a tree, close to our camp so Benny went to see what she was looking at and it was a red-bellied snake (poisonous), he scared it into the bushes at the end of camp, away from us!! We went on a beach walk and the dog followed us...turned into a but if a hike, up and over 2 sets of steep sand dunes and then along a beach with no-one on it, was a really nice walk and entertaining with our borrowed dog!! Benny pretended he wasn't fussed but I could see him smiling when he whistled and the dog came and I saw him throw the stick a few times ;) This particular dog seemed like the massive sticks that overbalanced her face when she tried to carry them, very amusing!! We thought we could do a loop around the beach and back along the inlet to camp but ended up at a dead end and didn't fancy walking through the swap-land, snake territory! We doubled back, climbed another sand dune and made it back to camp along a little board walk :) Got a fire going, had some snacks and cooked dinner and the dog just curled up by our tent and went to sleep....I think there's a farm down the road so maybe she just comes to the campsite for a little holiday ;) Id love to be travelling with a dog but its not practical with space at the moment and they do limit where you can camp, one day ;)
We're camping just left of this photo by the inlet
Ps. At the moment sat round the campfire doing this blog and we can hear "Dog" (what we've been calling her all day!) tearing around in the dark chasing possums, no squeals from the possums so don't think she's caught any but sounds like she's having a great time!
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