Seals!

Day 126 -Berry, Australia

I ignored the rain and the difficult prospect of dishes in cold water to cook pancakes for breakfast. There is this wonderful invention, a bottle of pancake mix, you fill it with water until the mark and shake vigorously… and it’s ready!

Mimosa Rocks National Park – Gillard campground – Pancakes for breakfast

It was altogether a late start, what with doing the dishes and watching kangaroos at breakfast and drinking hot tea watching the sea, but I made a quick stop at Australia Rock.

I didn’t found the rock that extraordinary (is it supposed to look like the shape of the country?)

Narooma Harbour – Australia Rock

But I got to see seals basking in the rain (no sun today), resting on the rocks of the breakwater.

Narooma Harbour – Seals

That was the high point of my day. The rest of the day was driving into more and more populated areas, leaving behind the wide spaces and empty lands and getting into inhabited and industrialized places.

The arrival at the campground was unexceptional. I had called ahead, got an answering machine, left a message; I was supposed to receive a call back, according to the manager I talked to the next day, but I didn’t get it. The office was closed, but there were indication of where to go for late arrivals, and a caretaker found me and gave me the code for the showers.

It is a showground, meaning that there is a stadium with bleachers, the showers are marked “hometeam/women” and “visitors/men”, and I guess they held events and fairs here.

They have laying hens also and I purchased free-range eggs. (And their dryer isn’t working, but you already know that from my note about Sydney.)

More pictures of seals in the gallery, “Prom to Sydney”!