May 21-27

Getting colder as we travel south. Why do people want to live down here. Maybe just as well as then they will come north.

Decided to revisit the Great Ocean Road this week.

The last time we were on this road Sarinda and Travers were very young. Maybe 17 years ago?  Time flies so fast.

Anyhow the views are just as we remembered and well worth the extra miles to see. 

After spending the night in a caravan park (much to my dislike of parks) we continued on to view the rest. Picture below was taken before sunrise. Lens wide open and 8 second shutter.

West we head and found a absolute gem of a camp right on top of the cliff - Coastal Park Lookout.
Too small to turn the rig around so had to reverse out, turn around and reverse back down to the parking area.

Being right on top of that cliff made for magic views and sounds of the ocean.
BUT when the wind turned westerly and increased the cliff compressed the wind to gail force. Could hardly open the doors.

The walk down the goat track to the beach was interesting after the rain as well, but well worth it.

Didn't break the camera. 

We left this seaside retreat and headed away from the coast after driving through Port Fairy.

Bill needed a swim and run. 

Man i love that dog. 

Sue liked the beach as well and collected heaps of small shells.

24 May.

We arrived in a small town call Heywood and camped beside a creek close to town.  The library has free wifi making it easy to update this blog.

26^th May Friday

Russell’s 55^th birthday.

A relaxed day today with not too much happening for him. He received a few texts and phone calls from his family and friends.

As chores never stop our washing has to be done and Sue booked herself into the hairdresser.

We also cleaned the van and look forward to going out to dinner for Russell’s birthday.

27^th May Saturday

Leaving Heywood this morning and driving towards Mt Gambier.

Just after leaving Heywood we drove into a town Dartmoore that had a few wood carvings, a historic old building that was used for a variety of uses such as a coach house, mechanical repairs, blacksmith and other things. Today it is open for tourists/ travellers to view handmade quilting, old farmhouse equipment, relics and antiques.

 

 

We then drove further down to a lovely park where we met with another nice couple towing a van with 2 dogs and Billy was happy to chase them.

From this point, we intend to continue our drive and enjoy the day.

Very cold, overcast and gloomy as predicted when we drove into Mt. Gambier. We located a Bunnings for some hardware before we set up camp this afternoon.

Russell has now attached some new barrel bolts to the three pantry slide out drawers to stop them coming out, as we had noticed the cupboard door is the only thing holding them back. Let’s hope the tiny barrel bolts do the trick for our intended off road travel.

Looks like a storm is brewing so I attached a photo. We had some small hail as well but no damage. Looks fairly well set in for the night.