Victoria

If you go east for long enough you eventually run out of South Australia. That happened to us somewhere between Mount Gambier and Nelson.

Our first night back in Victoria was spent at Pritchards Campground, a lovely spot on the Glenelg River about 25 kms east of Portland on the Dartmoor Road. It was there that the initials GSWW became intelligible, and a noisy koala enjoyed chomping on eucalyptus leaves high in the trees above our van.

After setting up camp we also discovered that you are supposed to get your permit to camp and then go to the site. A specific site is booked, not just a place in the campground.
In our travels in NT, WA and SA we paid for our permit on the spot. There they trust you to fill out your own permit and put the money in. I guess that there may be a few more people wanting to camp in some of these spots, but it would have been helpful to have some sort of sign or indication BEFORE we camped there. Now we have to find some way of getting the money to Parks Victoria

For the uninitiated GSWW appears on a number of signs along the road - and it means Great South West Walk. We managed about 800 metres of the track as we caught a glimpse of the Glenelg River from a lookout spot.

On the Nelson to Portland Road we also spotted a family of emus - seven in all, happily feeding less than fifty metres from the busy highway. They are the first emus I can recall seeing in this part of the world, and to see seven was remarkable.