LONDON BRIDGE

We awake in yet another beautiful camping ground in the national park (Otways). Were really lucky that along the Great Ocean Road throughout Victoria, free camping spaces are provided for travellers. Once over the boarder into South Australia however the camping is not free, it is dirt cheap though within the national parks. Most of the sites are 'trust sites', unmanned relying on the campers to place they're fee in provided boxes. The fee is generally around twelve dollars for the night (for both of us and the van). So cheap when you consider the location and facilities, it's both amazing and ridiculous when you think what you might pay in the somewhere in the UK. 

We sat outside the van all of the evening just passed, just after sun set when we saw shadows moving in the dark a few meters away, a dog? No Kangaroos, three of them! It's hard to make them out properly but enough to get us excited, just so strange to see something the size of a small person hopping around in the dark, exciting and a little unnerving.

A cooler day finally, thank god! We continue up the coast to Warnambool, stopping to see more limestone, cliff formations. This time a particular arch named London Bridge, once upon a time two large arches spanning out into the ocean, until one collapsed so now just a singular arch. Spectacular but nothing like the london bridge, more just a bridge. We hit Warnambool, no national park camping here so we check into a back packers which has a small garden at the back. 12 dollars each, bit steeper than the night before but bearable. Warnambool seems quite pleasant, again an old fishing town with the port at its centre. Every place we stop along the coast is an old fishing / shipping town, thats what it 'was', now these places would't really be anything if not for the constant travellers passing through, it feels a little odd really to think that these little towns are kept alive by people just passing through on their way to somewhere else, just stopping for necessity, not choice. In each of these places you'll find an information shop, ready to tell you everything to see and do, typically its walks, lookouts, sites of historic ship wrecks. Seemingly lots to keep you busy, a little repetitive after a while though, admittedly we haven't taken on so many of the walks thus far, soon though!