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Great Lakes - East Australia
Gap Year Travel Journal

(9th April) Great Lakes
We entered the Booti Booti National Park (another great Ozzie name!) and had the beach on one side of us and Wallis Lake on the other. The beach was stunning today since there wasn’t a breath of wind – lovely glassy waves rolling in with a lone fisherman enjoying the morning sun. We pulled in to see the lake and it was as still as anything – as you can see in the photo with Priscilla the van in it too. We found a great little café for our morning coffee and cake right on the water’s edge (see photo of Mike sitting on terrace). We could see nothing but water and trees all around and ended up having a long chat with the owner and some locals – very friendly people and very chilled out. They recommended we go to the Wishing Tree near the café so here you can see a photo of Jo attempting to walk all the way around without falling off the tree – which she managed – and so made her wish – fingers crossed! Just along the road was the Green Cathedral. This is a clearing amongst the Cabbage Palms where a consecrated church has been set up and they hold regular weekly services here too. You can see in the photo the altar in front and the wooden bench pews behind it. The pews look out over the lake – great setting for a wedding and we could tell from the rose petals on the ground that there had obviously been one recently. The photo of the sweeping beach with a headland at the far end is Sugarloaf Bay out at Seal Rocks. We climbed up to the lighthouse here and you can see the great views behind Mike looking down onto the beach. The actual Seal Rocks are located just offshore here but we couldn’t see any seals because they were too far away. The road passing through this whole area is so scenic and passes by several huge lakes hence the name Great Lakes Way – we saw Wallis Lake, Myall Lake, Smiths Lake, all much bigger than Sydney Harbour and with hardly a house on them!