Wilson's Prom

Paul and I have been meaning to go camping for weeks but chickened out a few times because of bad weather forecasts. So this Friday after work, we decided to go for it and drove down to Wilson's Prom. Wilson's Prom is a huge national park on a peninsula south-east of Melbourne - it's got mountains and rivers, and people go there to hike for weeks at a time.



We got to the campground as the sun was setting and by the time that we put up Paul's new (not actually that new but unused) tent, it was dark. Then the wombats came out.



We'd been told not to leave any food in the tent because wombats plough right though the tent to get at it. During the night I could hear one munching on grass really close by.

In the morning we had breakfast on the beach.





Then went for a walk around the headland to get to the next bay. On our way, we met this rock wallaby, who didn't seem to be too frightened of us.



Also on our way, Paul found a bee's nest inside a hollow tree, with a nice round hole about face-height that the bees were flying in and out of. On the way back, when he didn't see any bees coming in our out of it, he thought it was a good idea to poke his head in the hole and shout 'hellooo...!'. That made some not very happy bees.

At the bay, we thought about going swimming but the waves were pretty rough...ended up just standing in the water getting splashed by the waves.



Still pretty good.

When we headed back, we found out that it had been raining heavily in Melbourne, so we were lucky we'd avoided it. It's raining today. Apparently it's not usually like this. Maybe it's my influence.