Claire saved the day - she got a pint glass and captured the eight-legged freak and placed it far away from the van while we packed up the stuff (we checked everything for more spiders). Went back to the pint glass and the spider was running around and nearly knocked it over! We released it and it ran off dead quickly.
The weather was mostly grey and there were cockatoos everywhere. We drove to Port Albert - a bit of a dead end town. Parked up for some lunch on the coast - I made noodles for me and pasta for Claire. We had some bread and butter and there was a bit of an invasion of seagulls because I threw the crusts.
Claire was tired so went for a kip so I drove off to make up some time. I drove for ages going over loads of creeks such as Dead Horse creek, Old Tom's creek and other typically Aussie named creeks. I was trying to reach Wilson's Promotory - a national park and the southern most point of mainland Australia.
After ages I reached the gate to the park so woke Claire up. As we drove in we saw wild Emus straight away. Then we went round a bend and came across a wombat at the side of the road. Got out and Claire went over to him It's weird for these to be out in the day time so we were very lucky to see one. The wombat was very cute and quite timid!
After a long while driving through the beautiful scenery we reached Tidal River, the centre of the park where camping is allowed. We went to the visitors centre and booked on a free bird talk. We got a good spot to camp in and went for a walk. Found some enormous rocks and did some climbing.
Got back to the van and Claire made me a fry up for dinner. After dinner we did the same walk but this time in pitch darkness. It was ace - we saw four possums! Three brushtail ones and one rather angry Brown brushtail. He was hard to find but we could hear him roaring so knew he was there and spotted him with the torch eventually.
Got back safely and fell asleep.
Claire vs Spider
Wombat!!!!
This was one of many big rocks
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