Milligan Island Eco Camping

Arrive here and discover that we are meant to book online. So we look about and select Site 5 and make the booking. $20 per night unpowered. Once we are settled we go for a walk to the beach. Gorgeous spot to be - we go for a lovely walk, paddling in the water. When we return to our van, we have our lunch, meat and salad sandwiches for Roger and open toasties for me. We relax reading for a while, before Roger decides to get in his bathers, take his camp chair and book to go sit at the beach. I don't go with him straight away, I follow down abit later. I do the same, bathers, book etc plus I take a couple of beers and some muesli bars. When I get to the beach where Rog is - he's now out of the shade as the wind and tide rising have got him looking for a more sheltered spot. It's in full sun and I forgot to renew my sunscreen. Oh well, have our beer then head back to the van again. Continue reading and Roger organises our pizzas for tea. He cooks 2, 1 by 1 in the BBQ. Roger has his shower, now relaxing before bed. Think I'll see if I can watch some TV ABC iView - Muster Dogs - Where Are They Now? Before bed. Couldn't watch the latest Muster Dog series - not available until 10 December, so I watched a episode of Questions & Answers - definitely put me to sleep!
28/11/24 Thursday. Wake up around 6.30am. Rog and I lie in bed discussing our options with a bushfire happening 60km south of us. We decide to stay put here for at least another night. We were booked in at a farmstay south of Jurien Bay for the next 3 nights, but we cancel that as that area definitely in a 'watch and act' zone. We try to rebook our camp site here for another night - our site 5 is not 'cleared' online to do so. We figure it must still be held for us until later - we'll keep trying throughout the morning/day.
Get up and have our breakfast, porridge for me, muesli and toast for Roger with our cuppas. Roger tinkering with maintenance stuff on caravan and ute, I'm on cleaning duties in the van. We decide to go for a beach walk, Roger gets in his bathers in case he feels like a swim, I don't, I'll wait until this afternoon. Just as well Roger prepared to get wet, while walking the beach, Rog had kicked off his slides to walk barefoot, and while walking away from his footwear, unbeknown to us one of his slides blew into the water. About 10 minutes later when we turned back, Rog made a comment about 'someone's lost a shoe' as he pointed out one floating off shore. Took us a tick to realise it was one of his! Naturally he swam out and got it - lucky it hadn't gone too far. When we got back from the beach, I felt like abit more of a walk, so I went and checked out the camping area - 36 sites all up. Now spend the rest of the morning relaxing. Roger has meat and salad sandwiches for lunch, I have leftover cold pizza. Rog decides to go back to the beach to swim and read, I stay back at that van to read for a while - intending to catch up with Roger at the beach later. While I'm reading, I get a knock on our caravan - it's a nice young fellow, introduces himself, Gary, and then tells me that he's booked on site 5 for 2 nights. Ar ha - that explains why we couldn't rebook it! I get online and book site 6 for Rog and I, then message Rog about Gary - so Rog comes back. We move our caravan to site 6 (easy done, ute still hitched and no awning out) so Gary's right to move onto site 5. We settle ourselves on our new site - Roger puts our awning out for shade (the wind has dropped off for now). We try to sit outside but the flys, bees, wasps are too friendly so we decide to go to the beach for a swim. When we return, there's some breeze about again, but not too bad for the awning, so we enjoy a drink outside without the insects! I shower 1st, then Roger. For tea we have steak and vegetables. Tidy up and relax until bedtime.
29/11/24 Friday. Awake before 6am so I read in bed until 6.30am and get up then with Roger. Bushfire still creating havoc south so not able to continue our plan of staying at Jurien Bay. I have a quick look at online booking for where we are at present - will not be staying on here as fully booked with the weekend. Oh well, we'll have breakfast and get organised to move. Once we've done this we head off - just after 8am - for Green Head to go for a walk and look around.Read more