An exciting day, we will finally start on our road trip through Australia.
I just needed to get to an office to get the car transfered in my name. As we where close to a train station and the office was next to the central station, it made sense to take the train. Pretty sure it would be quicker and cheaper. I walked to the train station and after a quick trip got out in a beautiful trainstation, with a nice modern part and an older part.
The transfer of the car went quick, but was a bit more expensive then I expected, almost AUD 500 (~260 eur). After that a quick train ride back and we are ready to leave.
We just needed some gas cartridges for cooking, but I found a store on the way that would sell them.
We bought a book with maps and camp sites and from there I found a nice camping in a national forest that seemed nice. It had a marker for 4×4 only, so I figured that would be a good start.
At some point we stopped to double check where to get off the paved road on the unpaved road and saw a flashing sign about koalas migrating over the next 7 km. I guess we have to keep our eyes open.
Once we turned to the unpaved road we moved through the forest on a winding road. At some point there was a sign about only 4×4 after that sign. It got a bit steeper, but it was still pretty easy in the normal D4. When at some point I noticed I was breaking a lot, I checked on how to shift down and with a bit of trying I got to D3 and after an aditional click D2.
And like that we arrived at a very spacious grassy area with out 10 setups there. There was a sign with a URL where you had to sign in. The internet wasn’t very fast at this remove area, but enough to load the page and find out this camping was full. We looked around on the website and found a camping about 40 km further which was available, so we booked it and drove there.
There was beautiful scenery around and it was a joy to drive. But when we got to the place where the camping was marked on the map, we found out, is was a camping for hikers only and it was still an hour hike from the parking lot. There where some beautiful viewing point overseeing a valley with mainly eucalyptus forests
iOverlander to the recue, there ware two free campsites at about 10 and 15 minutes driving, which would be good, because by now it was getting late and we did not want ot put up the tent for the first time in the dark. The first campsite was fully packed. All nice camping setups and 90% 4WD.
The second campsite was still very packed, but there was a small spot we could park and put up the tent. Once we got installed I pulled out the stove to prepare dinner, but something was leaking, so the flame kept jumping to the canister. On the the backup stove.
After dinner we went to sleep and had a half way decent night considering the amount of people packed together, who all make their noises.
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