Thurra River Camp Ground – Toilets

Well, it’s always nice to be camped somewhere near the toilets. Ya know, ya don’t want to walk too far in the night or even at bed time for that matter.

Pleasing vista of the toilets in the bush at Thurra River Camp in Croajingolong National Park.

So I was pleased to find myself right on the job, so to speak, while camping at Thurra River near Point Hicks in Croajingalong National Park in East Gippsland, Victoria.

There are two toilets at this spot with several more spread among the camping spots that stretch along the track, not so far from the river and the beach.

Inside the disabled toilet at Thurra River Camp. Big enough to whirl a wheelchair around.

National Park toilets are generally long drops though there is a modern trend to go for composting toilets. These environmentally friendly models look a bit nicer and smell better, too, but at the end of the day, they do the same job, which is pretty basic, huh!

There’s usually little or no water available at these places so the choice of toilet is limited.

I was quite impressed by the toilets near my camp spot to find that while one is just large enough to turn around, sit down and do what you came for, the other is huge, no doubt in order to comply with disabled legislation and policy. Yes, you’d get a wheel chair in the door, wheel it around and back it in next to the long drop seat.

Pathway to the disabled toilet, blocked by tree roots on a steep incline.

But getting the wheel chair up the slope to the toilet would be a different matter all together. Way too steep and tree roots forming steps in the path. Tut tut, National Parks! I dunno!

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!”