Lake Colac was not a place to stay for long. It was not only that Marjo was kept awake all night by a crying baby of a couple camping about 10 meters from us, or the constant flies that tried to crawl in every orifice. It was the feel of the camp site that was somewhat weird. Hard to describe but we didn’t feel happy. So time to move again.
We had many people comment that Johanna Beach is such a nice camp site and while looking it up we also saw the description of Dando’s campground which is on the way to Johanna. We decided to have a look there first, also because it’s still the first week of January and smack in the middle of peak holiday season.
The first impression is that it’s in the middle of the rainforest and it’s pretty!
Besides plenty of shade from the tall trees (which are Manna gum trees favoured by koala’s) there’s a nice cool stream running beside the campground.
Then we went in the water and it was about 20 degrees cooler than the air temperature. Glad that it was about 36 Celsius that day.
Dotti and Nossi had also a great time in the water.
The only real downside of this camping were the horseflies that particularly bugged Nossi and Axel and we were happy when the sun set.
It was fly bedtime and just to make sure we decided to light a fire and expel all flies and mozzies.
Nossi and I went out to get some wood and because he didn’t carry any wood, he was back much quicker than I was.
We light a nice fire, had dinner and a nice evening together.
A magical day.
Posted from Johanna, Victoria, Australia.
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