Dimanche 8 mars 2009
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We woke up at 11am and drove to the next town to get petrol (we were not sure to make it – I calculated
afterwards that we probably had 4L left). We wanted to head back straight to Melbourne with a stop at Canberra (Australia's capital, not Sydney). Canberra is very peaceful but not as pretty than
I expected. I was also a bit deceived by the modern architecture of the parliament that we visited for 2hrs. After that we just drove straight away to Melbourne and arrived at 10.30pm.
The only country eating their animal's flag :)
Parliament
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Samedi 7 mars 2009
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We left her place at 3.30pm and we drove to Jervis bay, which took us 2hrs. Once there we faced an entry
of the national park where the employee told us that there was no available camp site left. We decided not to stay at Jervis Bay but just had a look at Hyams Beach, renowned for its whitest sand
in the world. We tried to camp at the next national park but it was a public holiday, consequently the place was very crowded, even though there was a 10kms drive on an unsealed road! Finally we
decided to camp inland, closer to Canberra. We drove at night in a scary forest in the middle of nowhere, with an almost empty tank and a heavy tiredness. We could not find the camp and decided
to keep going a bit further, to stop anywhere we could settle down the tent – a rest area was ideal if we had enough petrol to get there. Finally we made it and went to bed as soon as possible.
The rest area was amazingly packed with campers, because it was close to a natural reserve.
Oz navy
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Vendredi 6 mars 2009
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We woke up at 11am, packed up rapidly after breakfast and crossed the forest to the beach, where we met a
fisherman and its dog. We hit back the road to Woolongong, 100kms south of Sydney, and stopped to high sand dunes close to Anna bay (Nelson bay) and arrived at 11pm, where we met Nozomi's
friend.
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Jeudi 5 mars 2009
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We woke up with the sound of the music, very nice. We drove towards Sydney (300kms) and stopped by a
national park close to Kempsey. We were surrounded by some kind of tropical trees and found enough wood to make a big fire and cooked a fish on it. We went to bed at 3am.
Almost got it on my face at night
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Mercredi 4 mars 2009
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We should have checked out at 10am but were quite tired and decided to stay another night in order to
enjoy peacefully the day in this artistic hippy town which attracted more tourists than I thought, even though most of the inhabitants looked truly hippy, a bit in another dimension. Indeed, at
Nimbin's museum it really smelled pot and people were smoking inside the bar. The bar tender forgot our coffees twice (there were just 6 customers) and later on the cloth seller, waiting to get
back to his friends outside the store, was very confused and did not know how to give Nozomi's change back. The people were very warm and friendly in this town, it has to be noted. We also went
to a candle factory were they explained their process to make non toxic candles – Nozomi bought quite a lot of them. Then, back to the camp site we met few people, spoke with an old painter
travelling / camping since 3 years.
Candle factory
That's the spirit
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