-- From Lakes Entrance to Sydney

The road tracklog 
from Lakes Entrance to Sydney
from 2010/05/24 to 2010/05/30 

On Monday May 24 after a hard publication of the pages of my website I traversed the sumptuous C608 road in Snowy River NP. The day was not particularly sunny, but without rain. I was alone on this road in a landscape of mountain and hill farming.

After the junction to McKillops Bridge the road became a very narrow gravel road. There fortunately I was still alone as at the bivouac in McKillops Bridge which is the departure of a rafting descent of the Snowy River in four days.

The following day I left the bivouac to cross the bridge limited at 20tonnes, not of fear my truck is well in on this side. However the boards pointed out some bridges in Mongolia. Then it was a descent towards Orbost, it was a gravel road sometimes sealed in a very narrow valley.

I continued to the Cape Conran NP hoping for a pleasant but unknown bivouac. I returned in Marlo where pelicans perched at the top of lanterns overlooked the seascape. The bivouac was at the edge of omnipresent Snow River close to the mouth. The day was gloomy, cold and always without rain.

The winter was coming, May 26 was a rainy day without much interest by skirting the north of Croajingolong NP where I was diverted to have lunch in Tamboon at the edge of a inlet. The track was muddy and did not incite me to go walking in forest. I returned on Princess Hwy to bivouac in Thurra River.

The following day before leaving the State of Victoria I was detoured to see the Lake Mallacoota of which I made the turn, alas except pelicans always perched on lanterns, it did not have nothing there to see in this low season. The crossing of the border of New South Wales occurred without quarantine control. Eden  was the first city met within this new state where I collected tourist booklets. I establish my bivouac in the north of Merimbula. It was a day without interest and rain.

On May 28 I continued to head up the Sapphire Coast to Sydney. Actually there was always nothing to see exceptional except the ocean and the beaches especially dedicated to surfing and a lot of hotels. Indeed waves were favourable for this sport. Not finding a rest area for the night I establish my bivouac on a work platform having been used certainly to store gravel for the carriageway surfacing, not beautiful.

Still a driving day without attraction although I followed Tourist Drives to skirt the coast, alas it was inaccessible or occupied by allotments, hotels, resorts and caravan parks. At the end I was rewarded because my bivouac was exceptional, broad grassy ground surrounded by mountains at the edge of Kangaroo River. To reach it I had crossed preliminary the Hampden Bridge built in 1898 with towers notched like a castle.

On Sunday May 30 on the way towards Sydney I was detoured several times towards the coast in the search of attractions, the only worthy one of interest was the blooming sound of Kiama's BlowHole. A horizontal tunnel and vertical hole were dug by the sea, the penetration of the undertow of the sea produces a water eruption accompanied by a thunder clap. The effect is seizing. In the early afternoon I arrived without difficulty at Lane Cove River Tourist Park by following the route given by their website. The daily price, A$37, is propitiatory. It is located at 10km away from the Sydney's CBD. I remained one week there.

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