Yesterday we left Cowell around 10am and arrived here around 2.30pm. We've been put up the other end of the park to last time, but the sites are much more spacious, the roads are sealed, the toilets are new and the starlings are down the other end!
It's almost two years since we were here last-not much has changed. The housing estate near the park has one more home and the park rates have gone up from $113 pw to $140 pw (we now know this dearer price is still cheap!)
Point Gibbon
We had a lovely 5 days at Cowell. It's a pretty little place if you like fishing and not much else. We stayed in the park out of town so we could drive to the boat ramp without lights and number plate attached (such a pain to take on and off). The wind was pretty ferocious but on the two days we could get out, we managed to get ourselves a couple of good feeds of crabs and 3 paks for the freezer for later on. The only fish we caught were suitable for the crab pots only. We took a nice drive out of town to Port and Point Gibbon and managed to bury ourselves in the sand along one of the tracks-not a problem once we let a heap of air out of the tyres and put it into 4WD.
Port Gibbon
The sites at Cowell were huge-I reckon we could have built a townhouse on the one they gave us. We were surrounded by 3 groups of 3,3 and 2 couples travelling together and they weren't overly friendly but they were OK. One of them was travelling in a big bus, towing a big boat with a small 4WD that stowed away IN the back of the bus. It was a very impressive set up, but how much fuel would they use for all three?
Right now we are waiting for some more water to come in and hoping the wind stays away so we can go fishing.
Coconut Chilli Crab at Cowell
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