We catch a train from Melbourne center to a suburban station and then walk to the camper place to collect our vehicle and everything is as promised with a two person camper with a small stove, ice box, sink and utensils and a bed, pillows and bed linen and towels. We head to the local supermarket to get supplies and then we are off to Adelaide along “The Great Ocean Road”. That road runs along the Australian South Coast and is very beautiful and we stop frequently to enjoy the views, take camper-van lunch breaks and swim at some of the beaches. We pass Koalas in the trees above us and see an Australian Porcupine- an Echidna.
We find a campsite for our first night at Port Campbell and I walk over to chat to two young people who are going kayaking in the river that runs past our site. Mark tells me that he’s a sheepshearer and I tell him that he’s the first one that I have met but that I certainly can’t call him Mark-it’s not a romantic enough name and so he tells me that he is often called “Brownie”. Brownie’s lady is called Beck (good enough I think) and she tells me that she is Brownie’s “Roustabout” and they both invite us to visit with them the following morning and watch them work.
Steak cooked on the camper stove and salad and red wine for dinner and we share the small bed inside the van.
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