After a nice walk around by the bay and some food left Mallacoota and I started driving the windy, scary road so I wouldn’t get car sick. It worked and I drove until we reached our first stop – Eden!

Eden was on our list to visit thanks to a fellow traveler who told me an amazing story about killer whales (Orcas) that helped indigenous people capture other species of whales in the “Two-Fold” (Eden) bay for thousands of years, and then again helped Europeans do the same during the 1800s. The town built a museum in the early 1900s to honor one of the whales (called Tom) and now there is a updated lovely museum explaining how and why the whales and the Yuin Thaua people worked together. Fascinating! The museum also highlighted the toll whaling took on the workers – it was an awful life.

During lunch we heard of a swimming hole with colorful pink rocks and had to check that out. We found the beach and walked down toward colorful cliff where a wadding area had been built around the rocks in the area. Waves splash over the wall, keeping the water fresh.

We reached today’s destination after one more stop at a beach where we watched people catch small shrimp for bait. Tonight we are staying in Bateman Bay, another large beautiful bay. We’ll explore it more tomorrow. Our nice hotel was the Zorba Waterfront Hotel.

But the fun news – after dinner Dirk suggested we find a golf course nearby because we’ve been told kangaroos and wallabies occupy them at dawn and dusk. When we finally found the right place and waited a bit Dirk saw movement, we walked on the course and there were 6-8 wallabies of various (small) sizes. Cool!