Showing posts with label Portuguese Millipede. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Portuguese Millipede. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Sunset - Naracoorte Caves National Park, South Australia

We arrived at the campsite on Monday 19th April. Yes, it rained that night but what a spectacular sunset preceeded the rain.
Unfortunatley, even though the park had a camp kitchen, it was not available to campers, only to those staying in the cabins.
We had a powered site and access to an uncovered barbeque.
This is were we met Bruce and Robyn, fellow campers on a two year trip around Australia, and where the Portuguese Millipede came into its own. While parts of the country were inundated by locusts, the Limestone Coast was being inundated by the millipedes...it wasa fight between you and the millipedes to see who could overtake the shower recess first, after you had very carefully mopped the floor...felt like throwing up each time!
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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Point Leo

Hey, maybe most puddles have a natural tendency to form maps of Australia?
After the Mornington, we stumbled on this beautiful spot, right on the ocean. As you can see from the pictures, the weather was still against us and it rained on our tent that night. These are pictures of the sunrise the next morning. To wake up to this view is something else.
The amenities weren't anything to write home about but the location certainly made up for the lack. Pity it wasn't warm enough to go for a dip.
This is were we first encountered the Portuguese Millipede - from here on in, they would continue to grow to plague proportions....

Hey, is that blue sky I see?
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