The idea to be up at 05:30 to walk to the beach cliffs and see the sunrise never materialised. Alarm was turned off and back to sleep only to be woken by some big footsteps by the tent.  Guess who had come back to say g’day. 

We set off on the headland walk.

Everything is so well maintained in the NSW parks, paths are clear, campsites are tidy.  Off we trek on another well looked after walkway.

Looking up

Ah, nobody had been clearing the cobwebs.  Nearly every tree and bush is filled with menacing eyes waiting to pounce.

It’s not just the wallabies that hop.  We’ve never seen so many grasshoppers, mantids and other flying insects. The walk was alive with activity.

We came across a clearing to the rocks below and from there could see turtles swimming in the waves.  They proved to be too shy to be captured on camera.

Between March and October over 30,000 whales pass this spot on their annual migration. It’s known locally as the Humpback Highway and they often stop in the bay to play. We spotted Oceana doing some painting on the beach below,  waved and carried on our walk.

Oh look we are not the only ones on the track.  Something else has been leaving footprints in the sand.

Sure enough we’d got around the corner and a couple of young wallabies were playing in front of us.  They weren’t as brave as the ones at the campsite and hopped off into the bush.

We continued on our way and came out overlooking Wooli Beach. Miles of sand and not a soul in sight. 

After a quick snack, and seeing two white bellied eagles land on a tree by the beach we headed down to the shoreline passing some interesting items on the way.

The locals had got a shark bite kit in case of an emergency. That was enough to tell us we are only going in up to our ankles.

There are lot of things you can’t do oq qn the beach but you can drive.  Locals take advantage of this as there is evidence of donuts in the sand.

We spent a couple of hours walking and talking on the sand With the occasional dip of feet in the sea.  One young family came and also only went in to ankle height

Another young couple came down but only long enough for him to take multiple photos and videos of her doing handstands and cartwheels before leaving the beach.  We had our own go, but no videos for tiktok I’m afraid.

On the way back we stopped to admire the views on a grass bank where we could view 360⁰ as some other walkers had spotted a red bellied black snake on the path.  We gave it ample time to move away before continuing back to camp. We’d had a lovely day, the first without using the car since hiring it. 

So good was the day we were having a hot dinner of curry, rice and minestrone soup mixed together, with all three out of packets as we have no way of keeping anything cold.  We’ve been very resourceful with meals and drinks.  We heat the water for coffee and washing up by having the kettle and flasks on the dashboard in the afternoon sun.  Anything that needs to stay fairly cool is placed in the insulation bag in the boot.

The brush turkey was back at the smell of food.  So was someone else,  though he made his way alongside the tent and pretended to be a log by climbing the base of a tree when he realised I was following.

This time we were getting an early night as we want to catch the sunrise before the long journey to Rummery Campground.

G’night all