Day 6 – Park Loop

We wake to a grey and very windy morning.  The wind is coming straight off the lake to the south and is blowing a gale.    We hunker down in the van and no one is very keen to spend much time outside.   The sunshade that we’ve got off the side of the awing is flapping around quite a bit so I work out a way with some more guy ropes to secure it better against the wind and it end up being very stable.  

For something to do, we decide to take a walk down to the reception, then back up the Bulahdelah road to the far end of the park where there is a service entry and then loop back around.   We’re surprised to see that the lake on the north side of the point is really calm.  At the neck where the ferry is the water is still quite choppy, but as it opens up into the next section of the lake it is really calm.  Hard to believe the two different conditions are so close.   Along the road we come across another (or is it the same) group of Roos, we get to within a few meters before they hop off into the bush.  Of course as we near the end of the walk it starts to rain, fortunately to too hard, so we’re not too wet as we make it back to the van.

After lunch, the sun pokes its head out.  As the lake is still pretty rough, I take the kids up to the pool area.   Under normal circumstance they probably would have lasted 30min or so, but there is another group of kids there playing Marco Polo, so our two join in and end up being in there over an hour.

While here on the lakeside is a great view, when the wind is up it really take a beating.   Maybe there is something to be said for the other sites, as even just on the other side of the road, they seem quite calm.

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