Punt Hotel RV camping Darlington Point

Come here and park ourselves in the camping area out the back of the Hotel. It is very neat and looks good. We go for a walk to the Hotel to see what we need to do to stay. It's shut.....on walking around the building, we find (I assume the owner or manager) working out the back - he tells us we're welcome to stay and that the Hotel opens for business at 4pm during the week - weekends it opens 11am. He is nice and friendly - quite happy to chat, we meet his dog Jasper (big mastiff type - lovely sook) and find out he used to work at the Altina Zoo (for 20 years). We leave him to his work, and go settle ourselves on our chosen site. Once set up (not much involved - still hitched to ute, no awning, no mat out) we have our lunch. Roger has a couple of meat and salad sandwiches, and I have a couple of open toasties - relish, avocado, tomato, salami, capsicum and cheese. Next, Roger goes for a walk across the road to the supermarket to get some mousetraps, I stay tidying up at the van. Once Roger's back - and set up his new traps in the back of the ute, we relax for the afternoon - reading our books. I do go for a short stroll to check out the town - it's a lovely small town, so I'm not gone for long. At 5.30pm we go over to the Hotel to have some drinks and get some tea. We both order Parmigianas - Rog's with salad and chips, mine with vegetables and mash. Good meals and nice company - chatting with fellow travellers. Quite a few customers in the pub tonight. When we've finished our meals, we come back to our caravan. Roger has a shower, I catch up our budget books. Now relaxing (I'm writing this up) before bed. As I head to bed, there is rain! Lovely sound to snuggle up in bed to.
22/05/25 Thursday. I get up before Roger just before 7.30am, I'm keen to go for a run this morning. As I'm getting dressed I hear a light shower of rain on our caravan - not going to deter me! Turns out, the shower of rain was short, I didn't get rained on while I was on my run. I went along Darlington Point's 'Goanna' walking trail - lovely along side the river, by the time I returned I'd covered 6km. Roger has us pretty well ready to go - I just have to have my breakie and shower - which I do. We still have plenty of time before we need to be at Altina Wildlife Park for our 11am tour, so Roger and I go over to the Cafe in Darlington Point so Rog can have a coffee. Then we go to the Tourist Information Centre so I can buy souvenir jerky - emu, kangaroo and croc jerky. Ridiculously expensive- but just be interesting to try it, haven't seen it elsewhere. We decide to head off now (still early), just after 10am.Read more