Wellshot Hotel Campground

First place we stop to check out in Ilfracombe. Like the welcome, bar attendant immediately offers to take our photo in the funny seats before we order drinks. Roger enquires as to their rates for caravaners to stay out the back...$10 per person + $5 if want power. Deal - $25 seems good to us! Have our drinks - beer for Roger, Sloe gin and soda for me- then we go and settle our van out the back (Roger fully backs it into the yard). Turns out to be a good spot for us with showers, toilets and laundry etc. Not our timing for laundry. Get into our bathers and head off to the Artesian Spa and Pool. $5 each - very enjoyable here, neither of us got in the pool here though - too cold! Go back to our camp and use the hotel's showers. Decide to have dinner in the pub - both of us have the special (just in time it sold out) Tbone steak with salad and chips $24 each - really good! Enjoy the hotel, then go for an evening walk to collect the sunscreen that we left at the pool - nice lady also at the pub let us know, and that we should be able to reach through the pool fence to retrieve it. We did! Now back to our caravan for cuppas and bedtime.
Monday morning around 7am sees Roger go for a walk, while I go for a run. I shuffle out to the Ifracombe Racecourse and do a lap of the track and return. Then I walk back along the main street checking out the displays - all free. Meet Roger back at the caravan, he has breakfast ready, and after this we go and have showers. Packed up and underway by 10am heading for Aramac today.Read more