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...