Day 2 & 3: More Great Ocean Road and Coorong National Park, SA
After our first night's camp at Johanna Beach and a life changing meal for Mat "Fish" King of veggie burgers, we continued down the Great Ocean Road towards our next night's destination. We had 2 nights planned for Coorong National Park in South Australia. Coorong National Park is an amazing white sand, 100 km beach, separated from the mainland by salt lagoons and flats. 4 wheel drive is a must, since the only way in and out of the park is to drive through the massive sand dunes along the beach. Fish's late(R.I.P.) 95' Mazda Bravo truck would be our ticket to camping amongst the dunes.
We hightailed it through the 12 Apostles in order to arrive at the park by sunset. 9 hours later and Rage Against the Machine filled we arrived. We left our valuables in Aimee's late(R.I.P. I wasn't kidding when I said we blew up 2 cars on this trip) Holden at the park entrance and took off into the dunes. We found a spot nestled in between 2 massive dunes and erected camp just in time as the sun set. In proper celebration of getting to our first major destination with no hiccups, we got drunk.
Salmon Fishing
The moon and the sun
After our first night's camp at Johanna Beach and a life changing meal for Mat "Fish" King of veggie burgers, we continued down the Great Ocean Road towards our next night's destination. We had 2 nights planned for Coorong National Park in South Australia. Coorong National Park is an amazing white sand, 100 km beach, separated from the mainland by salt lagoons and flats. 4 wheel drive is a must, since the only way in and out of the park is to drive through the massive sand dunes along the beach. Fish's late(R.I.P.) 95' Mazda Bravo truck would be our ticket to camping amongst the dunes.
We hightailed it through the 12 Apostles in order to arrive at the park by sunset. 9 hours later and Rage Against the Machine filled we arrived. We left our valuables in Aimee's late(R.I.P. I wasn't kidding when I said we blew up 2 cars on this trip) Holden at the park entrance and took off into the dunes. We found a spot nestled in between 2 massive dunes and erected camp just in time as the sun set. In proper celebration of getting to our first major destination with no hiccups, we got drunk.
12 Apostles
The road in
The next day we went on a walk about in search of emu and firewood. We wandered across a giant salt flat littered with old fossilized coral. Some of them rose out of the sand 3ft! We located some old drift wood and noticed some gigantic dinosaur like prints in the sand. We followed them up a nearby sand dune and about 50ft away an emu took off running. It looked super awkward running across the sandy landscape, like it didn't belong, like it was on the verge of hitting a speed fast enough to take off flying, yet it never left the ground. It's head bobbed in and out of the bush as it ran over the next dune. Just as soon as we saw, it was gone. I wasn't fast enough to get a picture of it, but I did get an amazing picture of Scott Bryant "National Geo Photographer of the Year" making some plants work for the camera.
