Ewingar to Ashby - Friday 28 June 2019
We have some specific criteria to determine the best campsite. These include ability to have a campfire, proximity to water, remoteness from others, and ambience (this includes the sounds of nature - wildlife, water, and not the sounds of people!). The campsite at Andrew's ticked all boxes except water. This new campsite ticks everything except remoteness, as we are across the river (although it is a big river!) from a town and we have a neighbour. But I can watch the pelicans on the river from my bed! Perhaps the criteria need some weighting.....!As always on a travel day, we get up early (for us!), have a quick breakfast, and then undertake our pack up tasks. The aim was for a 9:30am departure and at 9:15am the dogs arrived followed by Andrew. We said our farewells, trekked out of our amazing remote campsite and hit the road. Fist stop was our favourite spot in Casino - the Showgrounds - for the dump point and water filling again. The beauty of this time was that it was warm and suuny so we enjoyed our elevenses in the sun while we did our housekeeping.
Down the Summerland Way to a fuel stop and lunch at Whiporie. A tiny one-stop shop so it was good to support small town business. On the road again after a particularly good burger, we thought we only had another 50km to go but it turns out we had to drive around and around in circles and even use a ferry because the river meanders through this part of the world. The ferry was pretty quick, although we didn't get on the same ferry as Neill and Jude (two caravans may have unbalanced it?!) so we had to wait.
We then had to drive into the town of Maclean, looking directly at our campsite across the river as it turns out, and then still drive 20km around until we reached this spot. This is another of our YouCamp sites, although this one I booked direct wih the owner on the phone (for cash!). So we are right on the river (it is not even 10 metres from the door of our van to the water), we got a roaring campfire going with the beautiful wood Andrew cut for us, we can hear the birds, the water lapping, the fish jumping and the bats but we can also hear the freeway in the distance and see the lights of Maclean - and we have a neighbour (but he sticks to himself). So all in all, a pretty good campsite.
We enjoyed a hot and hearty chow mein for dinner, until rain stopped play at tea time, before we could return to the fire just before bed.
posted by Tracey @ 6:22 pm
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