Mallacoota sits on the inside of Mallacoota inlet, a large embayment.  We are a 10 min walk from the town – well village – one pub, two tea rooms, a bakers, a bottle shop, two petrol stations and two little supermarkets.  Our new caravan with a small Banksia sp. tree in the foreground, we gave up on the trailer tent after being stuck in the rain for weeks..

This is another one of those rivers with a large bar at the entrance, you can’t enter this bay unless you have a very shallow draft and know the area.  There are plans to dredge the channel to give access to the ocean and build a breakwater.  Some of the locals want the access but not the breakwater, others want both and the Greens want nothing.  You can just make out the entrance to the bay - clear water with lots of waves breaking.  The entrance to the bay is in the distance, the forefront is the sandbar at the entrance, which extends from the shore. 

There are lots of caravan sites here, and they are packed.  This is the last weekend of the season and traditionally everyone goes camping. 

You see this type of caravan as permanent residence in lots of caravan sites.  This one is on its Easter holiday – the roof is a sheet of corrugated iron, which stops the rain from entering the roof and protects the roof from those falling branches.

These Australian pelicans were preening themselves near a fish gutting station.

Not sure what type of tree this is but you see it’s got bark that forms thick ridges down the tree.  Great for fires because the outer bark burns but the inner tree survives.  You can see the burnt bark in the second picture.

These are wombat turds – squarish in shape – I think.  Saw a great book I should have bought – Who’s pooh is that.

Paul on the rock outcrop one had to clamber over at high water at Davis Point.

Fortunately, we managed to run around the base without getting too wet.

Tip beach – lots of washed up kelp.  There is advert on TV here about going on holiday to the place where you can hear the sand squishing under your feet.  Well you can hear it here, must be because it is so fine.

Bastion point – this rock was laid down horizontally and has been uplifted and tilted 90 degrees so that it now stands vertical.

Pretty little top shell.