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 penguins looked amazingly like Cape Barren Geese.
Pete and Rob
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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