20 July 2019
We woke up to super thick fog this morning. It was very strange. It started lifting around 830 am, so we packed up, and I headed to the shop to buy homemade vanilla slices for morning tea. We headed off to 80 Mile Beach, a couple of hours down the road. We arrived at 1130 am, and the woman in front of me got the last powered site for the night. Lucky we have solar panels and a generator and don’t need powered campsites. Now that we are on bitumen roads, it is just insanely busy. There are caravans going everywhere, and powered sites seem to be difficult to get. I booked us in for 2 nights. We set up, and then went for a look around. It is a really nice park, and seems to have gotten big really quick. They don’t really have enough amenities to go around, but they are doing pretty well by putting up some permanent sort of temporary type toilets right down the far end of the park. There are a lot of long term people there that appear to stay for a few months at a time.
There was a bit of a market on in the arvo which we had a look at, and then Bill and I went for a swim. The water was very sandy – you couldn’t see the bottom – but still nice and refreshing.
Showers, beers, dinner, triominos and bed.
No photos today!
Travelling the Big Island 