Day 3 - NSW South Coast
On our way from Bateman's Bay to Bairnsdale, we followed the Sapphire Coast of New South Wales, passing through Narooma, Merimbula, Eden, Ben Boyd National Park, and Southeast Forests National Park
November 23, 2004

01-Peacock On Tuesday, November 23, 2004, my parents and I awoke at our motel in Bateman's Bay to the extremely loud calls of this peacock 02-Peacock Peacock 03-Peacock Peacock struttin his stuff 04-Peacock The owner of the motel said that he used to have 16 peacocks (!!), but got rid of several of them, so that at this point he only had 4 - 2 mature males like this one, one female, and one juvenile male that the adult males had beaten up so badly, the owner was keeping him separate for his own safety, hehe 05-Peacock The resplendent livery of the peacock 06-Peacock-back The somewhat less attractive backside of the peacock 07-Peacock Peacock 08-TravellatorSign What are travellators, you might ask? Well, they're basically flat, slightly inclined versions of escalators, ideal for taking shopping carts on 09-Travellator This is a travellator ... they definitely should have these in the States, they're great 10-PetrolPriceboard A priceboard at a petrol station ... we found it very curious that each type of petrol had a different tenth of a cent as the per liter price 11-NaroomaBay A bit south of Bateman's Bay was this beautiful coastal town of Narooma 12-NaroomaBay Narooma Bay 13-NaroomaBay Narooma Bay 14-NaroomaBay Narooma Bay 15-NaroomaBay The inland part of Narooma Bay, protected by the breakwaters and the peninsula 16-Rocks Rocks 17-Narooma Narooma 18-AustraliaRock The 19-Breakwater Breakwater at Narooma 20-Rocks Rocks 21-NaroomaCoast Narooma's coast 22-NaroomaCoast Narooma is definitely one of the jewels of the Sapphire Coast 23-NaroomaCoast Splashing water 24-Rocks Boulders of the breakwater 25-Surf Sapphire Coast surf 26-CementBlocks The heads of the Narooma breakwaters were made by these enormous kinda-H-shaped cement blocks 27-HBlocks H blocks 28-HBlocks H blocks 29-MomDad-Narooma Mom & Dad at Narooma, it was definitely one of their favourite places in Australia 30-Jared-Narooma Climbing up into the Australia Rock was fine, getting down was a bit trickier :-) 31-WallagaLake Wallaga Lake, along the road between Narooma and Merimbula 32-WallagaLake Wallaga Lake 33-SpeedLimit80 Speed limit sign by Wallaga Lake 34-BlackSwans Black swans 35-WallagaLake Wallaga Lake 36-Jared-WombatSign Me by a wombat sign ... it was at this point that I drove off, forgetting my sunglasses on the hood ... I managed to go back and retrieve them, but they've been a bit askew ever since 37-MomDad-WombatSign Mom and Dad by the wombat sign 38-RoundaboutSign If you saw this sign, what would you do? And no, the answer is not 39-HauntedForest A 40-BenBoydNP Ben Boyd NP 41-BoydsTower Boyd's Tower, constructed in the 1800s with sandstone blocks from Sydney, a goodly distance to the north 42-BoydsTower Boyd's Tower 43-BenBoydNP A really cool wavy rock formation at Ben Boyd NP 44-BenBoydNP Ben Boyd NP 45-WaveRocks Wavy rocks 46-BenBoydNP Ben Boyd NP 47-BenBoydNP The red rocks of Ben Boyd NP 48-RedRocksSurf The colours were spectacular at Ben Boyd NP 49-BoydsTower Boyd's Tower 50-BenBoydNP Ben Boyd NP 51-MicrosleepCanKill About every 5 km in Victoria, there would be road signs like this one (there were probably six or seven different messages), warning about the dangers of sleeping and driving ... I took this picture with the intention of printing it out and posting it on John's door when I got back to Gustavus, hehe 52-MicrosleepSign Microsleep sign along SH1 in the South East Forests NP 53-CapeConran Cape Conran, a bit southeast of Lakes Entrance 54-CapeConran Cape Conran 55-CapeConran Cape Conran 56-FrenchsNarrows French's Narrows, near Lakes Entrance 57-MarloBeach Marlo Beach, at French's Narrows 58-LakesEntrance Lakes Entrance 59-JemmiesPoint Jemmie's Point at Lakes Entrance 60-RigbyIsland Rigby Island at Lakes Entrance 61-ReeveChannel Reeve Channel at Lakes Entrance