green cape, eden ©190315
eden was always a place I told myself I would one day like to go to wherever it may be...perhaps the name 'eden' I've heard as far back as I can remember: garden of eden, east of eden (1955 movie starring james dean), return to eden (1983 tv series), barbara eden (I dream of jeannie)...
yesterday I arrived for the first time in eden on my motorbike, the furthest south I'd ever been to on earth... it even has a caravan park called 'the garden of eden'...that probably was where the story from a while back happened about a guy adam I think was his name, and he and his girlfriend got kicked out for stealing an apple...according to some report, they told the cop that an eastern brown snake, the second most dangerous snake in australia, implored them to shoplift the fruit...either they must had been smoking some funny ciggies, or that was just a local yarn which I just made up after smoking a funny ciggie...
the lightstation at green cape, eden ©190315
...the other side of eden...
to reach this one of two lighthouses in the area (the other 30km away, the ben boyd tower, a square structure which is much older and isn't in use and in the olden days they used to burn wood at the top and which I didn't get to riding yesterday) took some rough riding and a bit of mental beating:
18km south of the coastal town of eden there's a left turn-off from the princes highway...5km along the sealed road towards the woodchip mill and the old whaling station, you come to a right turn-off into a dirt road with a sign that says 21km to the green cape lighthouse...2km on that rough track there's another sign that says 'road not suitable for caravans'...now if you're pulling one, that would be a bit of a problem to turn around at that late stage...halfway down, there's yet another sign that says '$7 park fee payable if you come by car or motorcycle and $12 if you are driving a small bus or a CARAVAN'...if you have a change of mind by that time, you would have driven 30km just to see no-more old forest with more signs that say 'last logged 1974'...
18km south of the coastal town of eden there's a left turn-off from the princes highway...5km along the sealed road towards the woodchip mill and the old whaling station, you come to a right turn-off into a dirt road with a sign that says 21km to the green cape lighthouse...2km on that rough track there's another sign that says 'road not suitable for caravans'...now if you're pulling one, that would be a bit of a problem to turn around at that late stage...halfway down, there's yet another sign that says '$7 park fee payable if you come by car or motorcycle and $12 if you are driving a small bus or a CARAVAN'...if you have a change of mind by that time, you would have driven 30km just to see no-more old forest with more signs that say 'last logged 1974'...
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