The best camping spot......

Brooms Head - Wednesday 7th May

WOW! Brooms Head is the most amazingly beautiful camping spot. It is just west of Maclean in the Yuraygir National Park. We stayed at Lake Arragan / Red Cliffs camping area which is just off the main road to Brooms Head. The camping area only has toilets but you can camp right on the beach, there were kangaroos everywhere, and the most beautiful beach with rockpools. Jess and I went for a walk on the beach while Hutchy setup the van and we paddled in a great rockpool that was very similar to one I used to play in as a child at Station Creek, which is in the same National Park just a bit further south. We took off our shoes and pants and were having a lovely time paddling around and looking for fish when out of the corner of my eye I saw a creature moving on the sand, it was a little Octopus and it was trying to sneak up on us by moving a little bit at a time and camouflaging itself to look like a rock, freaked me right out! I grabbed Jesse and hightailed it out of that pool. The octopus still chased us over to where we were standing on a rock out of the water, and once it was sure we weren't coming back in to the water swam off to it's little hiding place. I wish I had my camera as it was quite amazing and it would be good to have proof as I don't think Hutchy believes me.

We had a nice little fire up on the headland and the sky was so clear that you could see the milky way almost all the way across.

In the morning we all went for a walk on the beach to the entrance of the Lake and we were virtually the only ones on the beach! Magic.....




Yes, that's our caravan on the left, what a spot!



Lake Arragan

Kangaroo and Joey at our campsite