Slowly we have to start moving towards Sydney. When I woke up this morning, that realization more or less ruined my mood without me realizing it. I found a few nice camping spots, one was in the forest and one at the coast. As the next few days we would spend time at the coast anyway, we opted for the place in the forest.
A small annoyance in Maps.me, is that it has no clue how to calculate unpaved road. So this trip over around 300 km would take over 11 hours. Luckily we learned to not take that time very serious.
After we drove a few hours and turned into an unpaved road we had a break and I double checked the route. The shortest route sure was short, but did contain a lot of unpaved road, the bit longer route had way more asphalt and was in kilometers not much longer, so we opted for that one.
At some point we came to a reservoir that held water for the the Melbourne water supply, after this, it was only 25 kilometer to the campground. After 20 kilometer there was a exit which looked like it needed some checking out before turning in there. There was a very steep track that went about 45 degrees down. It seemed challenging, but I knew the LandCruiser and it’s drive could do it, but Mo was very clear, we are not going down there.
I checked the map and found another route a few kilometers back, this one was even worse, so we stopped there and had a drink. Studying the map I found another route about 10 km north which had a bunch of hair pins, so we decided to check that one out and otherwise camp next to the road here.
This route however was pretty decent and we got down into the valley where our network connections don’t reach. We found another campground that looked nice and decided that was a good spot for today. We put up the tent, cooked dinner and went to bed as it cooled down pretty much already.
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