Spent the last two days discovering Wilsons Promontory National Park. It is known to the locals as ‘the Prom” and is the southern most tip of the Australian mainland and overlooks the Bass Strait. What a beautiful spot. Wilsons Promontory is a tourist icon and tourist mecca for many Victorians and other eastern staters and it is easy to see why. The park protects 50,500 hectares. The Wilsons Promontory Marine National Park covers the shoreline. There is so much to do here and camping facilities are excellent in the park. There are 480 sites, a few powered and ablution blocks. It is such a popular spot that during peak periods sites are balloted and hopeful campers don’t know until a few weeks before the event. Activities include nature walking, surfing, snorkelling, kayaking, fishing, swimming. photography etc. It would be a photographers dream particularly at sunrise or sunset. Easy to fill in a couple of weeks here. The Bass coast has some beautiful granite mountains as its backdrop. In fact the beaches reminded us very much of the Esperance beaches in the Duke of Orleans National Park, even a squeaky beach. We got a two day pass and saw as much as we could. Did a few walks through some beautiful areas including a rainforest and fern gullies and kayaked the Darby River. On one walk there were so many blackboys (grass trees) in one spot it was amazing. Interesting how different the walks are considering some leave from the same car park. There is a lot of wildlife around, wombats, wallabies, emus, unfortunately we didn’t see any but I’m sure if we were there in the evening we would see something. In February 2009 lightning set fires in the park and burnt for 36 days and covered a huge area. There is obviously a lot of evidence of this around and some walks in the park are still closed or have just reopened. It is great to see the new growth. Don’t recall hearing about the fires in WA but it might have overshadowed by the Marysville/Kinglake fires.
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