Thursday, February 21, 2013

On our way to the eastern Victoria



The ongoing saga of our travels continue, with us heading off from Swan Hill at 0830 on Tuesday morning, our plan was to travel to the east of Melbourne somewhere and camp for the night and then follow our nose until we ended up at Wilsons Prom, as we approached Melbourne on City Link we hoped the gods were going to smiling on us for an uneventful journey through the Burnley Tunnel and then down the Monash Freeway, and they did and it was a dream journey down both (I may live to regret this as we have to go back this way).

As we came out of Melbourne and joined the South Gippsland Hwy, we had some big decisions to make, where were going to stop for the night. I was having a chat with Rob and found out that she had never been to Phillip Island so the decision was made that was our destination.

We arrived at about 3.00pm and then proceeded to find a caravan park, Bushypark (thanks Dave) the one we stayed at during our surfing days is no longer there so we finally decided on one called (removed to protect the author).

Well you can tell that this is a tourist town for my little square of land for 2 nights I thought I was going to have to mortgage my house not to mention the 4oz gold nugget deposit for the key to the amenities. Having said this, it was a very quiet location and we me another couple there who were tenting it with 3 young boys, there was also this TV presenter and crew who were doing a session on a van I do not know the guy’s name but he does one of the caravaning shows on tele, we kept on  upsetting their filming because we had to drive past them to get in and out of the park.

We went out to the Nobbies for a trip to have a look at the penguins and seals, well I think it was blowing a force 10 gale, the penguins were learning to fly it was that strong.

Well we’ll sign off for the moment, keep and eye on the same bat channel for our ongoing adventures.



The supervising the artistic set up of my photo.

View towards Tasmania from the Nobbies.

 Does my bum look big on this seat.
 The penguins looked amazingly like Cape Barren Geese.

Pete and Rob

1 comment:

  1. Yes Pete, your arse looks huge on that seat! If you looked across to the right at about the same angle you're posing for the camera in that shot you'd be just about looking at where Bushy Park was. Sad to think that a part of our history is gone, some good memories of that place.

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