After just two days indoors, even in a chillaxing beach shack, I was ready for some more camping. After a good egg and bacon on Turkish bread brekkie we spent a whole 10 minutes packing the van again. Destination: Wilsons Promotory.

But first I wanted to see the sandy point that Sandy Point is named after, so we drove in the wrong direction for about 5 minutes, to the end of the road. It was at Shallow Inlet, which is the location for the current world speed record for wind powered crafts. It's also good for surfing and kiting. On the way there we met an echidna, and on the return we met a friendly koala! Or at least he wasn't grumpy. He was walking around on the porch of an empty house, so we got to get very close. It's such a funny animal to watch, especially out of his tree. After a lot of trouble he gave up knocking on the windows and found his way back to his gumtree.

40 minutes later we were at Tidal River camp ground, the only car based camping in the Prom national park. The camp ground is absolutely massive, I guess it has to be, they get 400.000 visitors per year. Again I'm happy for it to be off-season. I would've liked to hike down to the lighthouse and the southmost point of mainland Australia, but we don't have the time for that. Maybe next time.

I understand why everybody suggested we go here too, it really is beautiful here! Even just the little walk around the campground is great. The Victorians are very good a creating and maintaining their national park experiences. We sat and watched the mountain scenery from the little boardwalk at the edge of the swamp in front of the river in silence long enough for last night's cheap red wine hangover to finally give way. The beach, the islands, and the surrounding hills aren't to bad either. For sunset we brought our chairs and table down to the riverbank and played backgammon, with some cheese and vine. The seagulls were very interested, but the wombat jogging past was the highlight. I have now seen all the funny Aussie animals in the wild.