Mallacoota to Wilson's Promontory

Wilson's promontory is the Australian mainlands most southerly point and as it's a national park access is limited. So we register for the camp site at Tidal River, make dinner and head off down to the beach for sunset.

On our way out of the campsite we're stopped in our tracks by the ethereal site of two kangaroos about 10 feet away, mooching their way around. It's a busy campsite but almost no-one else sees them.

This is the closest I've been to wild kangaroos and it's quite a weird experience, they're not small animals, but they manage to bound quietly through the campsite effortlessly, almost without witness, then disappear into the bush.

Wilson's Promontory has that air of Gondwanaland similar to New Zealand. The pounding Southern ocean gives way to large flat beaches, massive sand dunes and then into scrub and bushland which climbs its way up mist covered mountainsides. It wouldn't be a shock to see Pterosaurs drifting above the cliffs, or King Kong rattling his way through the trees.