DAY 5-6-7 - Delicate Nobby

We have now travelled farther up the coast after stopping at 'boomerang beach', 'booti booti' and 'old bottlebut'. Over the past few days, we have been staying next to some spectacular beaches - the white sand and long surf stretches 7 miles or more, just on the other side of the rolling sand dunes from our tent. But we haddn't seen anything yet...

For the past few days we have made a great camp set up here at Delicate Nobby, in the Limeburners Creek Nature Reserve. Our gear has been put to good use. The hammock is up, our chairs are around the stove and small campfire, we made a drinking water station, some shelves in the trees, portable sink, and the pocket shower is hanging from one of the three eucalyptus trees that give us shade and home to several different kinds of owls. No kualas yet - but we have spotted a few kangaroos crossing the road!

While steph was asleep with her book in the hammock, I outfitted our site like the swiss family robinson. Steph saw the pleasure I took in these projects and has since called them my Dad-style jobs. We even found two of those solar yard lamps for 3 dollars each to add a little light to our tent's entryway and porch. Steph is very proud of our 'chateau'.

A typical day here starts with the surf school driving in to teach 30-40 beginners how to catch some waves. The residents slowly start to appear from their tents. The facilities are minimal. Although the bog water from the tap has dark, ice-tea look to it, there are toilets, outdoor showers and even piles of firewood for your campfire. The ranger keeps everything clean and casually comes by every three days as a 'debt collector'. This is a very laidback alternative to the monetized national parks which also come with lots of rules outlawing dogs and sometimes campfires too.

Soon a wicked' van pulled up next to ours with german backpackers, Mano and Torben. They were wrapping up their engineering student days in Australia with a campervan trip. After more than a month, they came back for a second stay here and confirmed that this campsite was special - one of the best they had found along the coast. They picked up an Australian accent and some cliché words like ‘heaps’ (meaning many) which I think is top of our list for Australian words.