Hi all,
Beach
camping:
Well we got back from four days
camping up
the beach yesterday and had a wonderful time!!! The place is just magic and wasn't too crowded as most had suggested it was going to be considering it's January and still school hols!
Hoons:
We arrived early Friday morn and had a great section to ourselves until late Friday night when two other groups set-up either side of our
camp. This didn't worry us until late Sat. arvo when we realised the mob to our south were a bunch of absolute d'heads who would do a 10 min session of donuts on
the beach every 15 mins or so and then drive straight back over the dunes and rip them to shreds in the process! The serenity was somewhat lost until they departed on Sunday, but we still had a good night and were up late ourselves Saturday night anyway (though we were somewhat quieter than our rowdy neighbors!).
What was most shocking about this mob of d'heads was that they simply packed up and drove off and left a pile of rubbish on the dunes where they had just cooked breakie! There were softdrink cans and broken glass bottles, Corona bottles, chip packets, oil from their bbq and a melted old chair or tent frame just left there! Their fire, over by their
campsite, was equally shocking! Disgusting! We cleaned it up ... good karma our way, and bad theirs is the way I see it! I hope they each blew four tyres on the way home!
Can anything be done about these idiots?
I asked one of the ice-vendor guys and he reckoned the Rangers were all just toothless-tigers and there was not much we could do about these fools!
Snake:
I also had a close call with a snake (not sure of the type ... maybe taipan, maybe eastern brown?).
What shocked me the most when I first noticed it about 1m away from me (and in the middle of the area where we were errecting the tarp) was that my gf and I had been talking and moving around the site for an hour or so (our tent was already up) and we had our 5m x 5m tarp with two of the four corner poles up and I was just putting up the third corner pole and the fourth corner was flapping around in a light breeze, and ...
well, I was just somewhat surprised and concerned I suppose that with all this activity a 1.5m snake came right through the middle of our
camp between where my gf and I were standing (some 4m apart).
Needless to say, we were somewhat cautious for the next four days around our
camp site and didn't venture into the long grass or bush behind our site! I half expected to have another surprise encounter with the snake again before we left but, after I chased it off with our long-handled shovel, he at least stayed out of sight.
I later asked the
Ranger and described the snake and he reckoned it may have been a taipan (after I first thought it was a brown simply because of its colour).
I am intrigued by snakes and admire them as part of our natural world, but this was a little too close for my liking!
We had an absolutely amazing time up
the beach anyway!
Cheers,
Mick
P.S: The fishing was great! Tailor, whiting and some big dart!