Day 7 Monday 19/12/2022 Portland, sunny breezy 12 – 21 VeeWee gets an early start to head home. I walk into town to pick up a couple of prescriptions from the chemist and end up leaning on a fence sketching … Continue reading Exploring Portland – Day 7 A Botany Lesson
Day 6 Sunday 18/12/2022 Portland, sunny windy 12 – 19 While Woody goes for a walk VeeWee and I catch the little tram that has a tram stop just out front of the caravan park. With poodle in hand, we … Continue reading Exploring Portland – Day 6 Trundling around town
Day 5 Saturday 17/12/2022 Portland, Sunny 12 – 18 Just outside the eastern corner of our caravan park there’s a red-capped lighthouse. This is Whaler’s Bluff light (1859) and although not very high the light is still operational. The antenna … Continue reading Exploring Portland – Day 5 Finding Blacknose & Crumpets
Day 4 Friday 16/12/2022 Camperdown to Portland, windy some cloud 11 – 16 It’s a glorious morning, there’s a blue sky and no wind. What a shame we’re leaving. We drive through more rolling pastures filled with contented cows, down … Continue reading Exploring Portland – Day 4 Grunting, squealing & poo
Day 3 Thursday 15/12/2022 Camperdown, overcast 8 – 16˚ Another chilly morning. This is a very quiet park and only a few workers are staying here. A quick walk to the lookout and gardens and I marvel at the size … Continue reading Exploring Portland – Day 3 A Taste of Timboon
Day 2 Wednesday 14/12/2022 Camperdown, cold wet, warm, cold wet, warm…7-15 We wake to rain. It had rained on and off all night. I roll over and go back to sleep. Woody walks around town. When I’m under the shower … Continue reading Exploring Portland – Day 2 Not there yet
Day 1 Tuesday 13/12/2022 Home to Camperdown, overcast 20˚ We have a good run up the Eastlink tollway but the Monash grinds to a halt at Moira Street. We sit in stop-start traffic surrounded by trucks and wondering if the … Continue reading Exploring Portland – Camperdown
Day 107 Monday 19/9/2022 Woomargama to Home, cold We’re up before dawn and we have short showers because we’re low on water and don’t want to top up the tanks. There is enough water to wash last night’s dishes so … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 107 – Back in town
Day 106 Sunday 18/9/2022 Marulan to Woomargama, icy wind 8 – 14 We have a warm toasty night with two doonas on the bed. The van quickly warms when we fire up the diesel heater though the outside ambient temperature … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 106 – Fit for a King
Day 105 Saturday 17/9/2022 Maitland to Marulan, 23 @ Hawkesbury 13 @ Sthn Highlands It was a cool night and we woke to dew on the grass. Trotters are clop-clopping around the arena. The GPS (she who didn’t know Blomfield … Continue reading Breakdown Blues – Day 105 – Did we fly in?
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