Day 10 Wednesday 25/11/20 Cavendish to Lake Bolac, hot low 30’s Lake Colac now Lake Bolac, there’s a pattern forming here. The drive along the southern slopes of the Grampians or Gariwerd is always a treat to the eye. Soft … Continue reading The Western Districts, Day 10 – Lake Bolac
Day 9 Tuesday 24/11/20 Cavendish, part cloud 23 It’s nice to have a very long sleep in, there’s no hurry, the air is fresh with eucalyptus and we’re breakfasting, reading papers and slurping coffee in a circle around the unlit … Continue reading The Western Districts, Day 9 – The Cavendish of old
Day 8 Monday 23/11/20 Port Fairy to Cavendish, cloudy 20 It’s a pleasant winding drive up the hills to Hamilton past a volcanic crater or two, large grazier’s homesteads and sheep, plenty of sheep. We stock up in the busy … Continue reading The Western Districts, Day 8 – North to Cavendish
Days 5 – 7, 20 – 22/11/20 Port Fairy – The Crags There’s so much to see and do around Port Fairy and one place that we hadn’t visited is The Crags, a natural rocky outcrop just 10kms to the … Continue reading The Western Districts, Days 5 – 7 – The Crags
Day 5 – 7, 20 – 22/11/20 Port Fairy, cool This quaint and historic seafaring town is jumping with weekend visitors. Being 280kms from Melbourne it’s the perfect location to really get away from the city. The town proper dates … Continue reading The Western Districts, Days 5 – 7 – Port Fairy
Day 4 Thursday 19/11/20 Meredith Park to Port Fairy, hot 35 Following the Princes Highway and miles of drystone walls we stop for a walk around Camperdown. With its wide avenue of trees, grand solid buildings of a bygone era … Continue reading The Western Districts, Day 4 – Stretching our legs in Camperdown
Day 3 Wednesday 18/11/20 Meredith Park, high 20’s It’s a glorious morning. The wind has dropped out, the lake is calm and powder blue. The fishermen camped near us have caught more fish and they really do look like ironing … Continue reading The Western Districts, Day 3 – Takin’ it slow
Day 2 Tuesday 17/11/20 Winchelsea to Meredith Park, Still Windy 19 We’re woken by the bloody corellas stirring. It’s a short drive to Colac. We need to buy a new tidy bin as one of us has accidentally thrown ours … Continue reading The Western Districts, Day 2 – Ironing fish
As Covid still rages throughout the world I’ll take you on another armchair journey, this time through the volcanic plains of Victoria’s Western District. There are over 400 volcanoes dotted through this area, though to the untrained eye they are … Continue reading The Western Districts, Day 1 – Winchelsea
It sounds simple doesn’t it, but now we realise that we’ve gone 3½ times around the equator. In these Covid times I know a lot of people are thinking about caravanning and whether it is a travel option for them … Continue reading Let’s go caravanning!
