Monday 23 September 2013 – Sanctuary Point to Wonboyn Lake

We were up pretty early this morning (a quarter to 7) as Margaret leaves for work at 20 past 7 and we wanted to see her before she left.  So we said goodbye to her, then had our brekky and got ourselves organised for departure on our next leg south.  We managed to leave at a quarter to nine, filled up with petrol and headed out to the Princes Highway.  Zola lost the plot this morning, as when we got to the T intersection, with Nowra to the right and Eden to the left, she confidently told us to go to the right.  Grant over-rode her instruction, and for the next half hour she constantly tried to direct us into side streets taking us off the highway and steering us back to Nowra.  So at that stage she was disconnected until we got closer to our destination when she DID get us where we were going.

Once on the highway it was pretty straight forward, as it was simply a matter of keeping to Highway 1.  The only problem was when we were nearing Moruya and we became aware of a long string of vehicles ahead of us, and they were behind some flashing lights.  It turned out to be a very large building being transported southwards.  This part of the highway was dual carriageway with only one lane going each way, and this building took up one and a half lanes in width, so even at the parts where there were overtaking lanes, overtaking was impossible.  You couldn’t see the end of the line of cars strung out behind us, so we were visualising a very slow, tedious drive.  But all was solved when, about twenty kms further along, the hauler pulled over into a sort of rest bay and let everyone pass.  PHEW!!

Pretty little town of Cobargo

The highway now bypasses a number of places – the picturesque historic township of Tilba Tilba and Merimbula being a couple of them.

We stopped at Bodalla rest stop for a wee break, chatted to a couple with a dog with dementia, then next stop was Eden where we again filled with petrol and had a leg stretch and something to eat with a cuppa.  From there it was only 33 kms to our latest home – Wonboyn Lake Cabins and Caravan Park, so we are about half way between Eden and the border, but 10kms in from the highway on the coast.  A few kms before we turned off the highway we came across an echidna scarping across the road.  He was only halfway across the lane going the opposite way to us, so still had a lane and a half to go.  We wished him luck in getting safely across, and I think he would have needed it, but we don’t know the outcome.

The park is not a big upmarket one, but in the bush, by the lake, full of birdlife – feeding the rainbow lorikeets, king parrots, etc, etc and very friendly and chatty.  We are here for two nights, so Grant will probably do a bit of fishing tomorrow.

Grant with friendly rainbow lorikeet.