Yesterday we headed off from Sandy Point and headed in an
easterly direction we really had no idea where we were going to stop, anyway we
had only travelled for about 40 minutes when we arrived at Foster, the place
had that country town atmosphere (this is from some one who lives in Swan Hill)
well we liked it and found the caravan park.
The park is really well set up, although it does not have a
large number of sites they are all grass and some have trees which provide nice
shade in the late afternoon.
They have a really big camp kitchen and the amenities block
is easily accessible and not to far from the sites.
There is a lot to see and do in the area and the location is
quite central the other positive being that it is only about an hours drive to
Wilsons Prom, there are some good fishing spots on the beach or rocks and as
yet I have not been able to wet a line, maybe we should look at coming over
this way for our “boy’s” weekend.
On Saturday we did a bit of a tour around the area and went
to Fish Creek, which has the Gallery of Celia Rosser who was commissioned as a
Botanical Artist ( she drew and painted plants) for botanical reference books,
the work is extremely fine and detailed, and some of the prints of the
originals were selling for $1,700. From there we went to Walkerville, the road
to Walkerville is a made road and a fairly easy drive and there are the remnants
of some old lime kilns on the beach which are massive. Then on to Cape
Liptrap, the road to the Cape Liptrap
lighthouse just about shook our teeth out, it is heavily corrugated over about
8 kms, and my speed was down to about 5kph over most of it, but the views from
the light house are great.
Around the Walkerville area there are also some beautiful
beaches (not much surf) but great for swimming or fishing.
Tomorrow we head of to Wilsons Prom for a minimum 3 nights,
we are not sure if we can get mobile signal there so we don’t know if we will
be able to update our blog, but keep and eye out for our next installment.
Setting up home for the next couple of day's.
The camp kitchen at the Foster caravan park.
The view looking towards Bass Strait from the Cape Liptrap lighthouse
Peter and Robyn.
One of my colleagues has a house at Foster. Supposedly good whiting and flattie fishing in some of the sheltered bays in the area. Might be worth looking at as a change of venue for our annual fishing trip as you suggest. Noticed there's not been any mention of equipment malfunctions or dramas so far. Fingers crossed. Let's hope it stays that way.
ReplyDelete5kph on the road to the Cape Liptrap lighthouse??? Mate, you need to get your suspension checked out!!!! Sharon and I just went out there earlier today and I was doing between 70 and 80kph nearly all the way. It was corrugated, sure, but not what we'd call badly. The view was worth the drive out there though.
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