Tuesday, May 13, 2003 at 20:38
We spent nine days and eight nights and camped about 500 metres south of
Eli Creek up behind one of the sand dunes. I was driving a 2001 Mazda Brava 2.5 turbo deisel and was pulling a camper trailer from Complete Campsites on the Central Coast just nth of
Sydney.
I had a 40l Engel running off a dula battery system and an Evercool Esky. Didn't need to buy one bag of ice the whole trip as I ran the Engel as a freezer.
Did all 4 of the main inland roads but didn't really venture over to the western side. Arrived
Easter tuesday to rain and strong winds so was a bit blustery putting
camp site together but no major problems. Had the whole
camp area to ourselves.
We had heard alot about the
dingo problems before we left but only saw about 5 on the whole trip. There were tracks around
our campsite in the morning but none came into the annex and when we were out during the day I closed the sleeping area but left the annex just open and there was no
sign of entry during the day.
I had also heard about midgie problems but we had none of those either. As far as weather went, we had some amazing luck ie on arriving at
LAke McKenzie it started to pour down so all the backpackers and tourist bus people came running back to their transport and left. We hung around for a couple of minutes and the sun came back out and we nearly had the whole
lake to ourselves. This sort of coincedence seem to happen the whole trip.
It was my first real offroad trip and I now can't wait to get back. The island is the most amazing place.
Had a long range fuel tank so I didn't need to refuel luckily as it was $1.47 a litre for deisel and beer was $42 a case for light and $48 a case for full strength. As I said earlier we were pretty self sufficient making our own ice etc and we had had planned our meals before we left and had our meat criovaced.
Wonderful trip, will definately be going back. Now starting to plan our trip around oz in 3 years.
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