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Date: 06 January 2005 09:59:14
The site is a fairly large caravan park on the south coast of New South Wales. It is fairly remote. I know this because the supermarket nearby sells medicines classified as Pharmacy Only. This is only permissable if the business has a poisons license. A poisons license is only granted if the business is more than 30km from the nearest pharmacy. So there you go. It's about 30 km either north or south to a large town. I don't know how far west you have to go because I don't think there's a road west...
Our campsite is not technically in the caravan park. It's in a buffer zone, required by the local council between the park and the road. It's quite pleasant though, mostly covered in grass, spacious enough for our needs. The only permanent building is our shed.
To get to the rest of the park, you walk out our gate and down the driveway and arrive at the boomgates. On your left is the office and shop (where people go to buy ice creams for the cooks), on the right is the shelter shed - this is home to table tennis tables (not tablets Yay, you are such a pharmacist!) and various other activities. Here the road divides. Let us go down the left hand bit first...
The left hand road leads to Siberia and the permanent residences. Siberia is a long way away and on the other side of what I think is a creek but it appears and smells fairly stagnant. Siberia is predominantly occupied by people in tents, many of whom have been coming to the campsite for years and years. The permanent residences are accessed through another boomgate (but as we are on a walking tour, this is irrelevant). I have never been in there so can't say much about it. But it looks quite nice!
Now reverse back to the first set of boomgates and we can look down the right hand road....
With the shelter shed on the right hand side, there is a fenced in play equipment area for kiddies and a pool on the other side. I do not frequent either of these areas, having an aversion to large numbers of children. Or small numbers of squealing children. So keeping on going.... there are lots of side streets of this road. The first ones are those formerly occupied by permanent vans. The vans have all been removed in the last 12 months and not replaced with anything yet. So this year they were all full of tents and caravans that people brought themselves. Beyond these streets are those housing tent city. As the name suggests, this is where lots of people with tents stay. I don't think I've ever been that far down though.
If you turn left after the pool, you end up at the beachfront cabins. Known as the posh cabins to those on team. These are typically occupied by families who are stopping by for a few days on the way to somewhere else.
I think that's pretty much it. Oh yes. Two other important bits. There are two (that I know of) drinking water tanks. One is in Siberia, on the other side of the stagnant creek. The other is behind the shelter shed.