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Batemans Bay to Sydney... and my birthday!!

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 Hello lovely people!! Apologies for not posting sooner, it turns out that not being at school hasn't stopped my procrastination skills from thriving 🙃 Our first stop since my last post was Batemans Bay, a nice coastal town where we planned on staying for about 3 nights... until it extended to 6. Unfortunately, the weather was quite dodgy while we stayed here so we didn't end up travelling around a lot. The highlights from this stop were; the cute hippy town called Mogo nearby (it gave very strong Tarremah vibes), a weekend market at another nearby town... and my birthday! We actually weren't planning on spending my birthday in Batemans but given the weather up north, we decided to stay where we were until it cleared up a little bit. I had mixed feelings about this birthday, I was super ready to turn 15 and was looking forward to celebrating it on the road but it was also my first birthday away from home and my sister and mum. On the actual day, I ended up heading to a nea...

Lakes Entrance to Bermagui

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Hello!! I hope your first week back at school has gone well (for the Tarremahtians) and that you are all keeping warm down in the cold depths of Tassie (excluding a select few lucky enough to live somewhere a bit warmer). Lakes Entrance was our first stop after Eagle Point which, as the name suggests is where the Gippsland Lakes meet up with the ocean. The main priority while there was, of course, to do the walk and visit the very point of the Entrance where you can watch the goings-on of marine life and boat traffic.  We then travelled to Cann River where we got to experience our very first free campground. Apart from a few interesting characters staying there, it actually wasn't vastly different from the paid sites. We got to light our first fire here where we managed to cook food on it for the two days we stayed there. On our first night, we roasted apples on the fire (much to my dad's concern) with the full credit for this going to my gardening teacher Sophy. On the second ...