Guess who's neighbourhood this is ??

While I was snorkeling at Jervis Bay this mightly eagle dropped in to get a snack and check us out.

Attack of the Killer Goanna

Now for those who didn't believe we would ever get off road here's the proof. Hidden away on the coast was a wonderful little beach which to get to required a bit of rough roading - stream crossing and wild life avoiding. LOL

This little fella just wouldn't pose from the other end, so you have to work with what you've got. He measured about 4.5 ft long and if he had decided that he was photo shy you wouldn't have seen me for dust. LOL

At last we are back in contact with the world. LOL The story so far: We finally headed north away from WET Mallacoota to a little place called Tathra. It is heaven on earth. The park is a palm filled oasis with a resort style pool and great staff. It is situated across the street from the best beach so far, so you know where we spent alot of the next week.

After selling my diving gear on Ebay, I had to bite the bullet and buy a new set to go snorkeling. The water is crystal clear and many hours were spent chasing fish towards the hunter gatherer (armed with fishing rod)- to no avail LOL. That said he did manage to catch the sucidial "Mullet".

We walked the national parks which were full of very wild life including snakes, goanna's, the cutest black wallabies and everything else that bites etc.

The only hitch to this wonderful place was it's a black spot for communication - no phones or internet. Some would say that's a good thing LOL.

We originally booked in for four days but stayed a week before we had to leave as the park was booked out. A must return.

Friday we headed up the road to Batemans Bay in anticipation of continuing the great beach adventure, unfortunately we are getting closer to Sydney and close to Canberra so the populations have increased, the parks standards have decreased proportionaly in relation to population and twice someone has tried to burgle us. Getting out of here on Tuesday - Thank God.

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Well we are off and running with the big trip. We headed down the highway to lake Tyers for a couple of days just to sort out the cobwebs and get back into the routine of life in Miss Guided. The weather was ok and we got to spend lots of time wondering up and down the beach.

As usual it didnt take long to work out what we had forgotten something and the first was the B----- phone charger and we are in the only town in the world without a phone shop. Quick call to steve and he mailed it to Mallacoota for us.

Stop two as you have guessed was wonderful sunny and relaxing Mallacoota. (that's what the brochures say) We have now been here three days and it has done nothing but rain rain rain and unfortunately the forcast further north is more rain. I keep telling Ron that we need to turn left and the sooner the better LOL. The pic above is the Huner/Gatherer at work. This was the only dry 5 minutes at mallacoota and he ran off to the jetty to catch dinner. Luckly I had the lamb roast ready to go, however he did find a couple of dozen oysters in the rocks so we had oyster mornay for lunch. Next stop is Tathra in NSW and if all goes well we head that way tomorrow. That again is dependant on the weather as we wont pack up Miss Guided while she's wet, a bit like going to bed with your leathers still on - you just dont do it LOL