Lunch at Thurra River and Point Hicks
I like a feed when I’m camping!
On this occasion, camping at Point Hicks in Croajingalong National Park in Victoria’s East Gippsland, I had my small caravan. Ah, fridge, gas stove, comfy bed, out of the weather; the comforts of home, almost!
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- The start of a good camp feed: egg and bacon.
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- Half a tin of diced tomato gave the meal some colour and flavour, to say nothing of nourishment.
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- The camp meal ready to eat, photographed on the seat of my canvas chair.
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- A cup of coffee from my favorite cup at Thurra River Camp, Croajingolong National Park.
So here’s lunch: Three slices of bacon, two eggs and half a tin of diced tomato, all done in the frying pan on the gas.
Top it off with a cup of coffee and then wash some dishes in the sink.
Well, it lacks the romance of my regular adventure camping but it sure is a step up on roughing it in the outback.
Croajingolong National Park, situated on the Wilderness Coast in East Gippsland, Victoria, houses many access points and camping spots.
My area is around Point Hicks, Point Hicks Lighthouse, Thurra River, Thurra Dunes, Mueller River, Camp Creek, and the surrounding tidal inlets and bush.
Point Hicks, or maybe it was really Mount Everard, about 15 kilometres inland, was the first land sighting of Captain Cook in the endevour. In fact it was Lieutenant Zachery Hicks, in the crows nest, who sighted land and cried “Land a-hoy!”
