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An uplifting day ….

The campsite we are staying at is called Lakes and Craters Caravan Park and the clue is in the title …. The area has a lot of lakes and craters … telling us a lot about its volcanic origins. Camperdown

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 10th March 2024
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On a road on the ocean and it’s great …

We headed off early today – an alarm at 7am (well early for us on holiday!) and on the road around 7.30am. We headed first across to Port Fairy for a quick look round. We knew that it would be

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 9th March 2024
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Walking and walking and walking …..

Late yesterday we had an epiphany, but it was not of the good kind …. We realised that Australians celebrate Labour Day, but … they don’t all celebrate it on the same day. In fact, the Victorians seem to like

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 8th March 2024
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Sinkholes, volcanoes and gannets

A mix of things today. The day started with a glimpse of weird Victoriana. We drove a short way to the east of Mount Gambier to the Umpherston sinkhole. This is, as the name suggests, a limestone sinkhole. The cave

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 7th March 2024
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Meandering to Mount Gambier

This morning we escaped the campsite before 10am ensuring we weren’t sanctioned for being lazy …. We left Robe and headed half an hour down the road to a town called Beachport. This does pretty much what is says on

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 6th March 2024
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Rambling to Robe

Our first full day in the campervan today and we overslept! Check-out times on campsites are apparently 10am and can in some places be rigidly enforced. Luckily at Mount Barker it wasn’t as we didn’t leave until about 10.45! From

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 5th March 2024
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Meandering to Mount Barker

Today the campervan beckoned … We have booked a campervan so that we can head across to Melbourne. The only issue was that the campervan pick was about an hour’s walk away. So we could have just got a taxi,

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 4th March 2024
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Ambling to Adelaide

A leisurely start to the day saw us reversing our route from the airport – ferry to Elizabeth Quay, train to Redcliffe (changing at Perth Central) and bus to the airport ….. An easy run which meant that we were

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 3rd March 2024
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Frolicking to Freo

Continuing the theme of syllabally-challenged names, today we went to Freo – perhaps better known as Fremantle. This vernacular diminutive – Freo – is what most locals call the port at the mouth of the Swan River. We had been

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 2nd March 2024
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Roaming around Rotto

Today we decided to have a day out to Rottnest Island. However, never ones to waste time with excess syllables, the locals simply call it Rotto. Rottnest Island is about 11 miles to the west of Fremantle, so to get

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Posted By andy_beharrell Posted on 1st March 2024
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