Stotty and Gosbee attack the last bastions of the East Coast II

DAY 4 - Monday 15th

So we were up at 8am, ready to hit the road. That way we could stop somewhere nice at lunch, see a few places, and make our way leisurely towards Sydney, when Bang. The curse of Juicy properly hits us.

The bloody van wont start. The Batterys Screwed, it wont even jump start...

Theres something on the keyring that says 'TAKE YOUR PHOTO WITH YOUR JUICY AND SEND IT TO xxxxx'. Me and Gosbee were thinking that we should take a picture of us two, the RACV repair man with the camper, and its bonnett open, with our fingers up to Jucy, and send THAT Bar-Steward in! Unfortunately, we were so relieved when he finally got there about 1pm and got us going that we completely forgot, which is a shame. I keep getting the feeling that i let a moment of Comedy Genius slip through my hands there.. :p

PART 2 - SO! With a pretty eventful start to the day, we should have known it would have been a pretty eventful end. The plan was to get to Malucca, on the NSW border, Via Marlo for lunch. We only got as far as Marlo in the end though. Well, a bit furthur, we drove along this tourist loop off the main highway to Nelsons point (possibly) looking for a decent place to park for the night.

So we're driving along quite happily, when suddenly this 18-19 year old girl just jumps out in front of us. So we stop, only to find another 9 18-19 year old girls* just around the corner, around a brand new Honda CRV, which in turn had half a tree still in it.
(* Dear Diary, Jackpot).

It was a pretty lucky escape as it pans out, which is why im going to allow myself to laugh and point, but i suppose it could easily have been alot worse! These girls had seen a turnoff to a campsite, not slowed down at all, and just slammed the car around the corner, but it was a sandy bit of road with all the rain the area had been having, so the car had just slid straight into a tree.

This was quite lucky, because about a foot either side of said tree was a massively solid tree trunk which would have completely mashed the car up, and a massively ironic 'STOP!' sign, which in all honesty, would probably have mashed the girls up if they'd hit it, and it had bent over the bonnet...

We drove along a bit, because the campsite did look a bit like something from Wolf Creek, but there wasnt anything better, and it did have the advantage of 10 hot 18 year olds there, in need of comforting, but by the time we got there 30mins later we lost them.

Bugger. Then we had another BBQ, and promptly lost a day.

DAY 5 - Tuesday 6th.

Then we set off to this place called duncan sands, which was a couple of hundred K outside of sydney, via Malucca. Malucca was awesome actually, it was a shame that Jucy had messed us around, because it was a real nice place to stop. We had some lunch there in the end..then had a cup of tea at Tamatha sands i think it was called, which was also an amazing beach, THAT SQUEAKED! AND was sunny!

But yes, Duncan sands, we only found because wed been driving for a silly amount of time, and i just followed an old sign down this tiny road. It turned out to be a campsite with a bar, a pool, our own private toilets, and electric (although this was pointless, as we couldnt use it.) It was only $20 a night, which is cheap for over here..specially for all of that! I mean, really we could easily have got away with not paying a cent, but we're far too bloody honest! :)

There were hundred of Kangaroos there (we even saw one with a Joey in the pouch), Hundreds of Possums. We saw a Pod of Dolphins in the beach, which was RIGHT next door. A 1min walk. and an incredible beach at that...there were schools of Puffer fish. The works!

At this point, we somehow realised that we'd somehow lost a day, and so we stopped for 2 days in the end, taking in the sights, doing a bit of swimming etc. Twas tres cool. And the barmaid there was hot! :P

DAY 6 -

We drove on up to Canberra today...It was okay there. The town itself had no atmosphere, it was really strange. I did buy an awesome leather hat with a crocodile leather band, and 5 Croc teeth on it, which you'll probably see in ALL of my pictures from now on! :P On top of that, we stopped off at the War Memorial / museum..THAT was really really good, and stopped off briefly at the national art gallery, although to be honest, i prefer the gallery of NSW in Sydney. Thats out of the national gallery in canberra, and the one out in Melbourne.

So we stopped there for a day, and then drove on up to Sydney, back to Gosbee's mate, Raj's house. We stopped there overnight, had a pizza and a beer for dinner, and then i had to be up at silly o'clock in the morning to drive Gosbee back to the airport.

DAY 7 - Saturday. So after the airport, i went over to Palm Beach in Sydney, had some breakfast there...Sunbathed all morning, played some guitar. Swam in the sea a bit. Then in the afternoon i drove over to some lookout that was recommended to me, went for a bit of a walk in the bush, drove back to Newtown, where i met up with my mates from the old hostel, got drunk, and that was pretty much that.

Day 8 was me recovering, Day 9-10 was me driving back to Melbourne Via the Hume Highway. I stopped off in some town with a Giant Submarine in the middle of it (Cool, but not as cool as the giant Sheep id seen at Goulton), and that was pretty much that..

The last few weeks ive been trying my hand at busking, whilst waiting for a few job apps to come back, and ive been trying to find work on farms too. The weathers been pretty pitiful this week, but im sure it will improve!