Friday 21st February, 2025
On Wednesday Stephen and I went out to Two Peoples Bay (an ungrammatical translation from the French), which is on the other side of the bay from East Bay Campground. Kim had told us that it was worth visiting. We were initially a bit disappointed that we didn’t have a view of the beach from the parking area, but then realised the key to enjoying ourselves was to go for one of the walks.
There were flushing toilets there, but no water for flushing, so not useful after all. After a bit of a walk around we had lunch and a rest. Stephen had worked out a trail for us to follow that lead up to a couple of lookouts, then back along the beach. The climb up to the first lookout wasn’t particularly steep, easy for us anyway. The second lookout had bushes hiding the view.
There was a steep flight of log steps down to the beach. The path back to the main picnic area, which a low tide can probably be done on sand, was a bit of a challenge through dry seaweed. I thought I would end up very dirty from pushing through the bush, then the tramping through seaweed, but my shoes were only slightly wet and not at all dirty.
After a cup of tea and a rest we drove back to the caravan park. They have a food truck three nights of the week and we took advantage of that to order a couple of small meals.
Yesterday morning, Thursday, we were due to check out of the caravan park, with a plan to go and stay at East Bay Campground for a couple of nights. We were feeling a bit tired from the previous day and I checked with reception to see if we could stay for an extra couple of nights. They were fully booked, which made our choice easy.
After we arrived at East Bay and waited for a family to leave we were able to camp right next to the beach, with views over the bay, perfect! The camping area is packed, with far more vans than we’ve seen previously. We are in what we thought was the day area, but the camp host hasn’t stopped people camping here and we like the fact that the edge is reinforced with a stone embankment, unlike where we have parked previously with a crumbling sand bank down to the water. The tide was up when we arrived and we had to walk through water to go for a walk.
It’s as breathtakingly lovely as we remembered from previous visits. Yesterday was sunny with a cool breeze. We woke up to sunshine, but have had a couple of squally showers so far this morning.
We shopped and refuelled on our way here yesterday which means we are well set up for the two night stay.