Gary and I got off the beaten track with our stay at Mallaacoota.  It is a huge holiday site but mostly for fishermen.  There is a caravan park on the beach with at least 500 sites for tents and campers (caravans) that at this time of year had about 50 sites filled.  We stayed at a local motel and ate at the hotel (the only restau...

Tuesday 9th January 2007 to Saturday 13th January 2007 We waved goodbye to Merimbula and set off to meet our cousins in Mallacoota. We spotted our first Kangaroos! We had a campa van to stay in! with the kind hospitality of John and Eva Black. Karen's last visit was 23 years ago and hardly a change had occurred in this sleepy fishing town! (Thou...

As we drove out the park this morning we passed the events hall place, where they had a carol concert in full swing, a choir singing Ruldolph the Red Nosed Raindeer. It was so funny only because the sun was shining, it was hot and we were driving past kangeroos. It couldn't be further from a UK Christmas if you tried. It was a short drive to a l...

Mallacoota is a town of about 1200 on the ocean close to the border of New South Wales and Victoria. It's also about the half way mark between Melbourne and Sydney - a great place to stop on the way right?!?! It is a summer resort town in Victoria, on the edge of a National Park called Croajingalong, but many Australians in NSW seem to have neve...

After Melbourne we didn't make time to see anything else around the area and were conscious of needing to be in Sydney for my 23rd and had quite a bit of stuff to fit into the day's in-between. We pretty much drove all the way from Melbourne to Mallacoota in a day - setting off from Melbourne one late afternoon and arriving in Mallacoota late th...