Day 89 | Yardie Homestead Caravan Park: yes, another day

rest area

Miffy, that’s Tiffany, well, actually Shirley, has had enough of Paradise and after 4 years managing the camp she and her bloke are heading back to cold, rainy old Tasmania. Basically sick of the constant whingeing, ie, do something about the wind.

Me and CJ are a little sick of the travellers of a different ilk: the done everything brigade.

Oompaloompa is characteristic with his shock of long blonde hair, worn scarecrow style, red plasticine nose with his nightly breadboard of exotic cheeses and Beauty Queen tag-along-and-worship-him girlfriend.

We say: seen turtles and swam with one for a minute or so, he’s swum with 5 of the much larger variety and they were mating. But it’s not as good as swimming the wreck in the Galapagos and seeing a squadon of them appear.

We saw whales in the distance, he was swimming near the outer reef and 5 humpbacks started doing tricks, leaping and splashing just metres away. But not as good as swimming with mating blue whales at Kaikoura.

We swim with a five foot reef shark, he was at the outer reef and 5 five metre sharks came swimming directly at him, just to check him out, of course he knew that they were harmless. But not as good as swimming with 5 mating White pointers at Port Lincoln, later he found the door hadn’t been shut properly on the cage.

Etc.

Why is it always the number 5 and the obsession with sex?

When I finally pack up to leave, I’ve been here 7 nights in the end, I launch into a (cheery) tirade of complaints to Miffy: I just haven’t been able to whinge to anyone because the people are so nice, they haven’t a bad word to say about anything; I haven’t been able to dry my hair properly because it’s been too cool and windless; can’t have a proper swim because there are too many fish in the ocean; and anyway the sea is just too wet, I was expecting dry water here.

Well the truth is there will be a whole heap of dryness in the next two months.

Somehow though I feel I’ve really hammered out my money’s worth of goggles and flippers: that activity has been purged from the system.