No To Kioloa Beach

Just goes to show, no matter how much planning you do, something can go wrong.

We have now established as bull dust, the fact that you can get into almost any Caravan Park, outside school holidays. With the school holidays now past, we phoned ahead to book at Huskisson. Sorry full. The same response was had at 3 more locations, so our plans for February and March were looking decidedly shaky. A kind soul (who we will seek revenge on at a later date!) at one of the parks we rang, suggested we call Kioloa Beach caravan park, which we did, and got in no problem. We also booked parks in The Huskisson area, Bateman's Bay and Narooma, and will now plan to be booked about 3 - 4 weeks ahead. So off we headed, comfortable in the knowledge that we had the next few weeks booked up.

The alarm bells should have rung when we arrived at the entry to Kioloa caravan park, to be greeted by a grand entrance archway under which our caravan would not fit! Undaunted John bounded up to the office door which needed the strength of 10 men to open, due to the rollers on the door needing replacement sometime in the last century! "Sorry about the door" came the reply. "You girls must have been in here for some time" John joked. Went straight through to the keeper. I paid the money, was given directions to our site, and told I would have to go through the side chain gate and ignore all the "no entry" and "go back you are going the wrong way" signs, until we found our site. There was little signage as regards site numbers, and we thought we had found our site, but we could not find any water or power connections. So back to the office, through that confounded door again, to ask where is the power and water. The power is on the next building and we don't have water. Speechless!! I explained that extension leads don't come by the kilometre, and that no water would give us a few problems when it came to washing and cooking, so I suggested I just get my money back and we would move on. At least we left going down the road the right way!! Oh and I didn't close that confounded door again!!



Tomaga Caravan Park Tomakin NSW



So at 3.00pm on the hottest Sunday in years, we started our ring around. Again we found a lot of "sorry we are full" answers, and we were getting further down the coast. Eventually we found a Pet Friendly Park at Tomakin. Where the Hell is Tomakin, I hear you asking. Well, it is a small coastal holiday area, about 15 minutes drive past Bateman's Bay. It is full of retirees and holiday makers, mostly from Canberra looking for a coastal escape. The Tomaga River Caravan Park is lovely. It is right on the river, as you can see from the photos. John can fish almost from the back of our site. It is peaceful, and there is hardly anyone else around. The Tomakin Sports and Social Club is right next door, home of the $4.00 lunch. Yes that's right, the $4.00 lunch, and the locals say it is great, and you even get a choice! We haven't tried it just yet. There is a little something about Carol and a $4.00 lunch to be worked out. A good coffee costs $4.00 she claims, and with her experience, who am I to question!



Tomaga River behind our site

This is a nice spot for a rest, and we are sure giving it our best shot.

We have found the best coffee spot in town. It is called the Tomakin General Store, and they bake their own sourdough bread daily, as well as lots of exotic pies (Kangaroo sausage in filo pastry!! yet to be road tested) and cakes, and a jam scone that is pretty dam good. Yes the coffee is $4.00, and it's good. We take long walks along the dog friendly beach and the river side, and in between John throws a line in to amuse the fish. The delights of Bateman's Bay, Mogo (a story all of its own) and Moruya, are all only minutes away. John has already found the Catalina Golf & Country Club at Bateman's Bay, to his liking, and is playing in their member's comp on Saturday. The Golf Course at Moruya also looks great, so that will get a testing soon as well. Will report on the delights of Mogo once it has been suitably surveyed.

The weather has not been great here, with showers on and off, but then you don't need great weather to simply veg out. Besides Carol has to keep up with Desperate Housewives, The Good Wife, My Kithchen Rules etc. etc. so Foxtel is working overtime.