Roadtrip: Melbourne to Sydney

I’m not sure why, but caravan-ing (if that is even a word), has always filled my mind with images families who cannot afford to travel via faster modes of transportation or retired couples who have the time and money to spend on constant traveling. Here in Australia, it is a way of life.

Over the Christmas holidays, we spent 7 days/6 nights driving along the coast from Melbourne to Sydney. Here are some of the highlights from each of the towns that we visited:

Yanakie (22/12):
- Rained on day one of the road trip, but found nice swamp beach to walk along at the caravan park
- Brown caravan park water and new "neighbors"
- Corey discovered new frog and dead spider shower buddies

Wilsons Promontory/Lakes Entrance (23/12):
- Squeaky beach barely squeaked due to recent rainfall, however had awesome rocks
- Climbed Mt. Oberon which turned out to be an hour and half lower body work out (roundtrip) to see the southernmost part of Australia
- 90 mile beach (2nd largest beach in the world) was reminiscent of Nags Head times 90
- Lakes Entrance caravan park rocked! Communal bathroom felt homely.
- Discovered Target Country is short for Target that has nothing

Merimbula (24/12):
- Stopped for lunch break at Mallacoota Inlet where we were rewarded with the best lamb and rosemary meat pie; also witnessed world’s largest pelicans
- Mallacoota Inlet also was home to the campervan cribs episode
- Purchased Eden’s famous Disaster Bay Chili Sauces
- Arrived at Merimbula, where we stayed at a cliff side/ocean view spot for the next 2 nights

Coledale (26/12):
- Stopped at Mogo Zoo – a quaint zoo with the best “pet” tamarinds
- Wollongong was a big disappointment
- For the second time whilst in Australia, Corey decided to make a U-turn into soft mud, trapping our campervan in a ditch
- Luckily, the very friendly people of Coledale stopped and rescued our campervan and saved us from having to call a tow truck
- Coledale campervan park faced the beach which was less than 50 metres away

Echo Point / Parklea / Sydney (27/12)

- Another rainy day on the road trip to Echo Point/Blue Mountains

- Echo Point was not much to see, and a bit overrated for me

- Decided to skip the blue mountains and drive in towards Sydney for a night view of the city