Huskisson

Mon 8^th - 9^th Sept  

It was only a short drive down to Huskisson and we enjoyed it in warm sunshine with a blue sky; something we haven’t experienced much of lately. Almost immediately on getting set up we were once again startled by the scream of a plover guarding its mate.  Although there weren’t many in the park, it was obvious that most sites are yearly sites and the vans have semi-permanent annexes. There were also a great number of cabins, most unoccupied. Of the caravan sites, a number had been dug up and there were men laying new turf. That didn’t leave much choice for us and we had some difficulty finding a level site that we could get on to and was within hiking distance of the ablution block. We wound up on quite a large site with large vans and annexes right around us. Right behind us lying on the lawn was a dead rabbit.

 Huskisson is a beautiful little town on the coast with stunning views. Where the river meets the sea is a sheltered anchorage for several different boats and there were also a few larger boats. We watched a large school group going out on a dolphin watch tour.  The dolphins would have heard them coming from miles away. A couple of young blokes were fishing off the landing and there was a young mother trying to teach her son of about 4, how to look through binoculars. She also had a job convincing him that the thousands of tiny fish we could see in the water were not tadpoles, because as he said, “We have been reading about frogs and they look like tadpoles.”  I love the way those young minds are such sponges sucking up interesting bits of information. Behind us, only a few metres away, was a row of shops, mostly tourist type businesses. To do any shopping we had to go to the next town Vincentia, which had a shopping centre. It is another pretty town, stretched over a big area with houses hugging the steep hills above the coastline. You would need to have confidence in your brakes to get down many of the extremely steep driveways.