Huntsman Spider

22-1-2010 (Friday)

Lakes Entrance is at the end of the ninety mile beach and has lakes and seashore. In front of our campsite is a kind of lake, when you cross that by the footbridge you get to a stretch of dune that has a beach front to the Bass Strait (sea between Australia mainland and Tasmania). The land around here is like that along the coast, really beautiful. We will try to make a picture tomorrow form a lookout point.

We went to the beach and the kids collected a whole bucket of beautiful shells. In the afternoon we stayed in and around our ‘house’. Sharon did some shopping with Zeb and Sharai slept for a couple of hours.
Off course we had a bbq.

Ruben had some beers with some guys that came down from Sale (100 km west of here), two of them have Dutch parents. In these area lots of Dutch people life. Sharon did some email and Skype.

Coming back in the van at midnight Ruben saw this giant spider, Huntsman Spider http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntsman_spider. Sharon screamed the whole park awake. We caught it an threw it away. Quit an adventure.
The tone was set for the night, Sharon went to bed with a torch and was looking for spiders almost al night from the bed. On top of this it started storming and our sunscreen attached to the car was still out and was going up and down like crazy. So at 3:30 we rolled it in, because it’s not working well it was very difficult and even dangerous.
Finally we slept for a few hours. WHAT AN ADVENTURE FOR US.

23-1-2010 (Saturday)

This morning we found out that our sunscreen was damaged due to the storm last night. Our friends from Sale repaired it.

Today we moved up along the coast in the direction of Sydney. We left Victoria and entered New South Wales. We drove for 3 ½ hours to arrive in Pambula Beach. The holiday park is on the ocean front, our van is first row, it takes us 50 meter to jump in to the ocean.

The park is great, huge pool area, big playground with trampolines. And coolest of all Kangaroos hopping around.
Good change we stay here for a couple of days.

Only negative thing till now is the state of the campervan, airco is not working and the mosquito’s nets covering the windows are broke. KEA sucks.

Sharon has a new flashlight for the nightly spider search!!