Loch, Victoria.
We travelled an easy 250km from Lakes Entrance across the South Gippsland rolling countryside to our friends John and Mandy Boaler where we will put the caravan on their lifestyle property in Loch. Mandy was in the paddock when we arrived moving the 9 sheep their 2 dogs Jac and Karley where helping her!!!
The track down to the house is steep and windy but Richard carefully inched his way with the trusty Ford Ranger down the hill and into position next to the shed. Power and water were soon connected and the whole van was set up for a long term stay. We would be here for some 4 weeks.
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| Handsome Jac |
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| Notice the flags |
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| Beautiful Karley |
Our first trip out with Mandy and John was to "Coal Creek" Historic Museum, just outside the town of Leongatha. It is a country Museum showing how coal mining had a massive part in the history of this area. Whilst walking around we all experienced the weirdest thing! the sound of rain that seemed to be rushing towards us... we headed for the nearest shelter which was a very nice little Church! the heavens opened but we were dry!!
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| John and Mandy on the train |
These are just a few of the photographs Richard took
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| A rare sight on the way to Wilsons Prom |
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| Normans Beach, Wilsons Prom |
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| School Camp |
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| A decent selfie |
The sea was an amazing colour really like and azure blue, everywhere looked as though we were in the South Sea Islands!!
At the very end of the road (before the beach) is a very large National Park Campsite that was quite full and also very expensive!! We had a good walk around the campsite and found it to be very nice with lots of amenity blocks with excellent shower and laundry facilities. As Richard always says when the price of a nights camping is expensive "so they should be"
at the time of our visit the price per night including electricity was $68. Maybe because it was still in high season! but we don't think so!!
One area of the Campsite was specifically for School camps and as usual we heard all the kids before we came across their setup... the kids were getting ready for surfing lessons etc.
What a place for a camp!!
We set off and walked the full length of Normans Beach and at the same time Richard was being bitten by the "March flies" and as usual we hadn't got our repellent with us!! There were lots of walking tracks with quite a number of people high up on the cliffs at the end of the beach...It just seemed a bit hot for a long tramp!!
On our return trip we found a really hidden beach called "Squeaky Beach" once again walking through the bush to this amazing sight, we thought we were on a South Sea Island, not at the tip of Australia it was so beautiful.
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| Squeaky beach |
Philip Island
John decided to take a day off and we all had a trip down to Philip Island... again we were so lucky with the weather, it was beautiful and hot! The sea was an amazing colour once again. Unfortunately the little penguins were all tucked up in their little wooden huts that were tucked into the side of the cliff.
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| View from the Boardwalk |
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| Penguin shelters (the little square boxes) |
After a hearty lunch at the local RSL (now there is a story!) John, Richard and Helen managed to get the concession rate for a 3 course lunch for $12 but Mandy had to pay full price....poor Mandy! A discussion ensued on whether the 3 concession lunches would be smaller....of course they were, much to John and Richards disgust!! a right laugh was had.
We visited the Wildlife park on the island and loved it!
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| Wombat |
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| Mandy feeding the Roo, with Joey |
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| Tasmanian Devil |
Enjoy
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