We set off from Eagle Point along the Princes Highway again which winds around some very tight bends and goes up and down hills quite steeply most of the time, this is all a bit alarming as we are not really used to towing this caravan yet. So, after many sweaty miles we stopped for diesel and coffee in Oborst. These country towns are great, Oborst has a wonderful old hotel that was opened in 1901 and it has a board outside telling visitors the history of the pioneering family who founded it, as do many of the shops in the town.
As usual, the locals were very friendly and one woman told us we must visit the craft market before we left as it was really something to see. We followed her directions and found a small hall with a woman in it surrounded by jam and doillies, when she wasn't looking we managed to escape without buying anything.
Back on the Princes Highway we reached Eden before nightfall and stayed in a campsite on a bit of a sand spit (strangely yellow sand along a coast where it is usually white) with a calm bay on one side and thundering seas on the other.
While we were there a miner turned up in his truck selling opals he had mined himself. He gave anyone interested a demonstration of how he polishes them and his wife tried to flog a few bits that had been made into jewellery.
Headed off in the morning with the aim of reaching Jervis Bay. We drove through some beautiful towns, Merrimbula was particularly lovely, this is called the Sapphire Coast but it was a bit grey and drizzly so we will have to take their word for it about the sapphire seas.
We got to Jervis Bay and stayed the night in Huskisson, where the bay begins you can see people playing in the waves just feet from other people sitting on boats and chilling in completely calm water. There have been cockatoos everywhere on this trip but most of all at the Huskisson campsite.