Over the border to New South Wales

That's it, we've done it, traversed Australia from West to East!We have arrived in Eden NSW on the East coast after 3 and half months travelling excluding our month in New Zealand.
We had a fairly uneventful stay in the rainforest last night, we were eventually joined by 3 smaller campers which made us feel a bit more secure. It was very quiet apart from the kookaburras at dusk and a rain shower in the middle of the night on the biscuit tin. It was nice to wake up to the forest smells instead of the usual egg and bacon you get on some campsites. The sun was shining but we fell we can soon alter that!Once again we are not ravelling too far and so we can investigate side roads. A sign to Mallacoota looks interesting as it is virtually on the bottom right hand corner of Australia before you start going uphill. A turn off the Mallacoota road to Gypsy Point sidetracks us a bit,but when we get there it is well worth he visit. It's just a few house round a wharf and a long drop dunny, but very peaceful looking out over the lake. There are also about a dozen kangaroos resident here (lots of roo poo!) pity they didn't use the dunny! There is Wilderness River Cruise available aboard Captain Rumbottles' Gypsy Princess, a craft that resembles 4 oil drums with a shed fixed to the top.Afternoon tea is served on board! Fortunately it sails on Sun,Tues and Thurs, fortunately, as the navigator is keen to go on it,but it is Monday! The Genoa River will have to miss out on her navigational skills. On to Mallacoota, and it's another hidded jewel of Victoria, so it said on the town sign.It is a very pretty, large village on an inlet from the sea and is full of boaties.If we hadn't already made our minds up to go to Eden, we may well have stayed here. Back up to he main highway, and guess what, it's raining! At the junction there is a sign. One way for Eden the other way for Orbost, so it's Eden Orbost .......get it?! Just over the NSW border we manage to evade the biggest lizard we have ever seen as it scuttled across the road on a suicide mission. It was at least a metre long, as long nearly as half the width of the road. Luckily for him Peter managed to steer round him.
We are not many K over the border, yet the whole terrain seems to have changed. The forrestry seems to be managed differently to Victoria,it is thinned and cleared and there isn't the dense undergrowth. Also the canopy is more open, yet the same trees.As we approach Eden the sun is out and the view over the bay is super. Our campsite is very nice,grass pitches and plenty of room. The sea is a 600M walk along a boardwalk by the side of a rather smelly inland sea lake Lake Curalo.We hadn't gone very far when we encounter our second lizard of the day . This one was about20cm long ,a Blue Tongued Lizard which Peter nearly stepped on. On the beach it is very warm and the surf is really big, next time we will have budgies and boogie boards with us. What a day this has been for wildlife spotting as on the beach we see some crested terns, then 3 yellow tailed black cockatoos and to round it off a dead fairy penguin in the surf........I spy with my....... We were looking for the town but got a bit lost along the wrong side of the peninsula so we head off back to camp. As Peter sits and writes up his journal the temp drops by 5 degrees, the sky tuned black and it rained! The Rileys have struck again! We doubt if it's raining anywhere else in Australia! Rained on and off all night. Definitely looking at plan B all will be revealed.