Around 9am the Spirit of Tasmania squeezed its way down the Mersey River and into Devonport and fairly slickly we disembarked. From there the first stage went according to plan – the pre-loved car (pre-loved to the tune of 300,000km!) was waiting for us just a couple of minutes walk away and so we headed for the Devonport Information Centre. This stage was more...
14th March Parked up in the caravan park in Geelong, we decided this would be an ideal base to explore Melbourne for a day. So we headed to South Geelong station where a very helpful station guard helped us buy MyKi cards for unlimited travel for two days. At a total cost of just over $50 for both of us for unlimited travel for two days, we though this was a bargain...
From Otway we headed on to the east this morning to cover the last of the Ocean Road. We headed through Apollo Bay and then stopped for a short walk up to Carisbrook Falls. As with everywhere else, the volume of water was not very significant, but nevertheless a beautiful stop. Carisbrook Falls From there we drove on along a beautiful stretch of road, closely hugging...
With another day at the campsite on Cape Otway, we decided to do a tour of the Cape. The advice from the lady at the campsite was to start with Mait’s Rest. Immediately she said I made stereotypical assumptions about the way Australians would spell Mate’s Rest, but no …. this one is spelt Mait’s Rest. The reason for that is that the area is...
This morning we left Camperdown and headed south back towards Port Campbell. Driving along I had the song ‘Camptown Races’ as an earworm – not quite the Camperdown Races, but Camperdown did have a racecourse and if you sing it badly enough the words do fit with Camperdown ….. It passes the time! Once back at Port Campbell (where we left the...
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 is at the centre of a region that was volcanically active between 10,000 and 30,000 years ago – relatively recent in geological terms. Although much...
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 busy as today is the start of the long weekend and the Port Fairy Folk Festival and, sure enough, even at 8.45am it was heaving with people having breakfast at trendy...
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 their Labour Day a week later than all the states further west. This left us with something of a conundrum because the long weekend means that...
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 that was originally formed by the limestone dissolving eventually became so unstable that the roof collapsed, forming the sinkhole. Some of the sinkholes...
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 the tin – it has a beach and it used to be a port. It is now though a lovely spot. We parked at the tourist information (combined again...