Day 24 – Platypus, Six Mile Creek and Bermagui
Fiona forced us all out of bed at the crack of dawn to spot more platypus in the river beside our campsite. This turned out to be quite fruitful, as we watched a bunch of their distinctive V-shaped ripples scoot around. Very cool to watch.
The campsite was rather foggy as we packed:
Heading on, we flipped a coin and headed toward Bega via Tantawangalo. This took us through the Southeast Forest National Park, and led to a great bit of serendipitous discovery. We stopped at a site called Six Mile Creek with a walk trail (also a camp site), and this turned out to be a gorgeous little place to explore. Tall trees, a babbling stream, mossy boulders, the works.
If we hadn’t been driving a mere half an hour at that point, we would have absolutely stopped to camp there. As it was, we pushed on. Out into some scenic farmland:
We stopped for coffee in the small town of Candelo. Turns out we’d missed the local music festival by a day. Still, talking to a local convinced us to head for the coast. So, we did, heading to Tathra to look at a historic wharf before turning north. We drove all the way to Bermagui, our destination for today. This town boasts some historic sea water pools. The Blue Pool:
A local critter:
It was good to run around the beach after a long drive:
Almost half way now.
