Aldi & Karloo Pool

We checked out our new ride for the next couple of days. The campervan is exactly the size we needed. We took pictures of any damage to the van and headed to our first stop: Aldi down the road to fill our fridge.

Driving on the left is really odd. It doesn't always seem weird until cars are on the right coming towards you. Erik is doing really well. He goes over the line on the left sometimes but better him driving than me.

If you ever go to another country, check out their grocery stores. It's always interesting to us to see what they sell. We bought more than enough to fill our fridge and a little to fill the freezer. Then we found some small rope and hung up our wet clothes.

Next, I made sandwiches and we had an ice cream bar.

Then, I found a place about 30 minutes away that had a "short" hike to this watering hole, or pool as they called it.

On this drive, we began heading South and further out of the city. We saw our first ever koala crossing sign. It did not come with koala.

We made it and parked at the Heathcote train station. The path to the pool was just around the corner. We started our walk. It is 2.5km, a hard trail, and supposed to take over an hour to complete.

At first, it was nice and cool and we were under the shade of the trees. Then the rocks became bigger and the steps to get down them were tougher. We stopped a few times to search for wildlife. We passed by a bunch of kids that looked to have camped out down the trail. Honestly, we didn't think the trail would ever end. After what felt like ages, we finally found it.

There was a couple in the water up to their knees. Erik and I found a place to sit down in the shade. Some big lizards came by behind us. Okay what we thought were big. This other group of kids came down the trail and told the couple in the water that there was a lizard on their bag. That was not a lizard. I'm fairly certain it was a komodo dragon... (edit: it was a lace monitor lizard). We ended up seeing two of them. One of them had a little black bird that kept by it and would yap at its tail.

We checked the temperature of the water. Nice and chilly.

Then, we decided to head back. Going back was much quicker than going down.. although, we had to do a lot of uphill and over big boulders so that wasn't fun. It took only 45 minutes to go back up.

The komodo dragons (edit: lace monitor lizard) made it all worth it.

Quick stop at the train station bathroom. I had to pee so dang bad. Erik told me to just go on the side of the trail. Absolutely not. If it were not a heavily trafficked trail, I would have considered it .

Then we got in the camper and opened some doors because the clothes we have drying gave a bit of a musty odor.

We sat down for a good while and then decided our next adventure. Stay tuned.Read more