South Australian Coast

Happy Birthday! I decided not to spend my birthday in free camping. Actually, I had intended to but the spot I had selected was tiny and untidy and seemed to have semi-permanent campers. When the flies almost carried me away, I headed to a caravan park. Smoky Bay park was lovely, right on the water and quite shady.

Interesting enough, I was shunted into an awful spot.The receptionist said she'd put me close to the camp kitchen and the amenities. She didn't say I was away from everyone else, that clothes on the rotary hoist would slap against my van in the wind and that people had to walk between the clothes line and the van to get to the dump point. I had visions of people in the middle of the night, sloshing by with their toilet waste. And there wasn't a skerrick of shade. Maybe she thought that was all I could expect when I'd had the cheek to ask for a solo's rate ($28 instead of $30). To her credit, she didn't object when I asked to move to the other side of the camp kitchen

Maggie and Paul leaving Smoky Bay.
She said: We thought it would be nice to cycle
out of our driveway in Perth
and into our daughter's driveway in Melbourne.
They left at the beginning July and will arrive
in Melbourne at the end of October.