Town of 1770, Emu Park and Midge Point–12 to 17 July

Having perfected the art of time travel our first stop was  The Town of 1770.  This is one of our favourite destinations and one can spend a whole day there  and wonder where it went.  We walked into Agnes Waters on the bike path and then along  the beach.  This was a lovely walk.  There is a nice Restaurant called  The Tree in 1770.   One can meet the locals and find out what’s going on.

From the Town of 1770 we drove to Emu Park, also on a lovely beach.  There is a singing sculpture of Captain Cook’s ship on the headland.  Even in a light breeze it sings.  The emus are long gone.

Tricia was rather put off  Midge Point by its name.  She expected masses of small biting insects.  However Midge Point is named because the original survey ship The Fly had a longboat which became known as The Midge.   Midge Point was named after The Midge.     This is a lovely camp set amongst the trees.  The tide goes out a long way here and on a falling tide it is great fun to walk along the sandbars for miles.  There is a bay that almost completely empties at full low tide.       One needs to concentrate as the rising tide rises fast.