Anne and Les had told us about Saltwater Creek, just south of Eden about 25km off the highway. It was a really pretty drive in on a very good dirt road - white dust replacing red dust.
We got in and got set up in a beautiful camp site, very green and treed and with heaps of very friendly kangaroos. There were also friendly possums and bandicoots at night. In fact, one possum was so friendly he volunteered to clean our outdoor stove for us. When I politely suggested he might like to GET OFF, he looked up at me with his big soulful brown eyes and put his head back down and continued to snuffle, lick and nibble at the stove. I figured ah well it needs a clean anyway, so I left him to it.
It was cold and overcast when we arrived. We went for a walk on the beach which is quite stunning. Overnight it rained hard and as we didn't have the fly up over the window above the bed, the bedding got wet. So the next day we had a trip in to Eden to dry out the bedding.
Then back to the campground on a very sodden road. There was a strong wind blowing and it rained most of the day.
We went out onto the beach to watch the huge seas. It was wild and beautiful with mists of sea spray and thousands of blue bottles and lots of other interesting debris washed up in the very high tide. Here are a few images.
I managed to get quite a big tick in my head which Mike managed to remove with the aid of tea tree oil and metho. Mike got 2 small ticks on his body.
We went for a walk on the beach the next morning. The weather had settled and it was a calm clear day. The beach was quite eroded and there was a channel into the creek that hadn't existed the day before. Mike had fun with it!
We also went on a long walk on a track through gorgeous bush and stunning gorges and cliffs. We saw some amazing rock formations.....
And almost stepped on a brown snake curled up by the track.....
We finished up the last night with a lovely hot shower under the stars.
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