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Day 46
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 10:22 AM
☀️ 23 °C
Altitude: 146 m
Australia Merriwa Park -36.35736, 146.3246136°21’26” S 146°19’29” E
Wangaratta
February 20, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Wangaratta is a good place to stop for groceries. There are several major supermarkets so you can get just about everything you might need.

We headed to one of the parks that offered showers. After a quick stop we were on our way again. On the way in we spotted a neat minion letterbox at one of the farms. Heading out we went past a historic water tower.Read more
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Day 46
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 1:32 PM
☀️ 28 °C
Altitude: 168 m
Australia Moyhu -36.5782, 146.3793336°34’42” S 146°22’46” E
Moyhu
February 20, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
The Lions club must be quite busy here. They have an old church as their meeting place. A lot of work has been done on the Lions Park with good amenities and a free barbecue. The whole area is very well maintained.

To the side of the park is the start of a dairy museum. An old engine, genset and milking machine drive. It's all a layout I had not seen before and probably predates the more common Southern Cross machines. Vacuum for the milking process was created by a reciprocating piston. There did not seem to be a teat attachments though. These were easily damaged as they aged so were often discarded.Read more
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Day 46
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 1:50 PM
☀️ 28 °C
Altitude: 197 m
Australia EDI -36.65688, 146.42136°39’25” S 146°25’16” E
Edi Cutting campground
February 20, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
Edi Cutting is a camp we stayed at last year. It can accommodate many campers and has a beautiful stream running past. A nice place to spend a day or two.
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Day 46
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 8:00 PM
☀️ 24 °C
Altitude: 296 m
Australia Jamieson -37.33167, 146.1305937°19’54” S 146°7’50” E
Doctors Creek Campground
February 20, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Just a few kilometres south of Jamieson, are two excellent campgrounds. We have stayed at Skipworth reserve in the past because Doctors Creek was closed for repairs and upgrade.

Now Doctors is open again. Camping beside a mountain stream is pretty neat with the sound of babbling water in the background.

There are lots of birds. A large group of satin bower birds, probably females with last seasons brood. No sign of any males though.

The little wrens were hopping all around and even came very close into our camp. We stayed very still and enjoyed the moment.

Dozens of king parrots were here eating the many apples on a tree near the creek.

The crimson Rosella's were here as well as others including the tree creepers.

The weather has been quite pleasant. Temperatures during the day have been around 30 degrees with the night getting almost cool enough for a light jacket. Jamieson is quite elevated though, so one would expect cooler conditions.Read more
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Day 46
Tuesday, February 20, 2018 at 10:14 PM
🌙 23 °C
Altitude: 157 m
Australia Milawa -36.45417, 146.4302836°27’15” S 146°25’49” E
Brown Brothers winery
February 20, 2018 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 23 °C
If you like wine, a stop at Milawa is a must. Here you can find the Brown Brothers winery. There is much to choose from with something for just about every taste.

Next stop would be the Milawa cheese factory. Stock up on cheeses and then check out the wines here. The Moscato is to die for. An explosion of tasty grapes in every sip. One taste and you are completely hooked. Next a muscat and suddenly you realize you can't afford to taste any more. They also have several preservative free wines.

Wines from the cellar are definitely just a little more posh than your average drive through bottle shop.Read more
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Day 47
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 8:52 AM
⛅ 13 °C
Altitude: 635 m
Australia Mansfield -37.30136, 146.2298837°18’5” S 146°13’48” E
Gallows track turnoff
February 21, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
Along the road there are tracks that head off to who knows where. We are not setup for serious off road touring so we will stay on the main track.
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Day 47
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 10:27 AM
☀️ 17 °C
Altitude: 1,136 m
Australia Mansfield -37.34798, 146.3294537°20’53” S 146°19’46” E
1150m high point
February 21, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 17 °C
As you travel from Jamieson to Licola, you pass over a high point. Nothing other than a sign and a bit of a view. The track is quite steep and winding. We took a few hours to do the 90 or so kilometres to Licola.Read more
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Day 47
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 11:33 AM
☀️ 16 °C
Altitude: 1,523 m
Australia Mount Skene -37.42814, 146.3792937°25’41” S 146°22’45” E
The scenic lookout
February 21, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
Along Jamieson to Licola road there are several scenic lookouts. The trouble is you would need a 20 foot tower to see over the trees. These places are seriously in need of a little TLC, but it seems the forestry have no money for maintenance.Read more
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Day 47
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 12:02 PM
☀️ 16 °C
Altitude: 1,509 m
Australia Mount Skene -37.43056, 146.3907337°25’50” S 146°23’27” E
Scenic lookout
February 21, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 16 °C
This lookout did have quite a view. Off in the blue yonder the ski slopes of Mt Buller are visible. The view across the valley would be very impressive in winter after snow. Trouble is though, the road gets closed.Read more
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Day 47
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 2:56 PM
☀️ 24 °C
Altitude: 196 m
Australia Licola -37.62821, 146.6237337°37’42” S 146°37’25” E
Licola
February 21, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Licola is a pretty area. One can walk around a nicely grassed area with views of the river. . Nice picnic area by the river. A seat right down at the edge of the water looks like a nice spot to absorb the afternoon ambience.

Across the road is a Lions Village. This is a youth camp that caters up to 350 children in a camp environment. We saw kids soaring high and long on a flying fox. I expect there would be abseiling and many other activities.Read more
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Day 47
Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 4:26 PM
☀️ 23 °C
Altitude: 84 m
Australia Mount Bradley -37.90616, 146.8014237°54’22” S 146°48’5” E
Glenmaggie dam
February 21, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
The dam here was built around 100 years ago to retain water for irrigation. Originally it held 130 gigalitres but was later increased to 190 gigalitres. A decent info kiosk, playground for the kids and American areas to have a picnic. The views over the lake and dam were quite good.Read more
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Day 48
Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 10:59 AM
☀️ 22 °C
Altitude: 32 m
Australia Heyfield -37.98332, 146.7817937°58’60” S 146°46’54” E
Heyfield wetlands
February 22, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Heyfield is quite a nice area. One can camp there for a donation and head off a couple of blocks to the wetlands. It is quite a large area and includes several scenic walks. Urban runoff water is purified in the wetlands before it runs back into the river. There are many different birds found in this area.Read more
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Day 48
Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 11:27 AM
☀️ 23 °C
Altitude: 51 m
Australia Cowwarr -38.01413, 146.6971638°0’51” S 146°41’50” E
Cowwarr Bunga
February 22, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Town of the cows. This is a delightful place on the way to the RV camping area. The theme here is obviously cows in celebration of the many dairy cows we saw as we drove into town.
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Day 48
Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 11:59 AM
☀️ 25 °C
Altitude: 63 m
Australia Cowwarr -37.99703, 146.6594137°59’49” S 146°39’34” E
Cowwarr RV camping area
February 22, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
Nestled at the end of a huge and well maintained parkland area is the RV overnight camping area. You do need to be self sufficient for everything. The only facility for campers is toilets. We saw swimmers along a bit in the day use area. This would be a beautiful area for a short stay.Read more
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Day 48
Thursday, February 22, 2018 at 2:12 PM
☀️ 31 °C
Altitude: 224 m
Australia Mardan South -38.48948, 146.1313138°29’22” S 146°7’53” E
Dumbalk North farming area.
February 22, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 31 °C
Heading from Cowwarr towards Foster there is quite a bit of driving through farming areas. Some of the scenery is very spectacular.
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Day 49
Friday, February 23, 2018 at 6:08 PM
☀️ 22 °C
Altitude: Sea level
Australia Port Welshpool -38.702, 146.4632138°42’7” S 146°27’48” E
Port Welshpool
February 23, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 22 °C
Today a fishing trip in Franklin Channel, Corner Inlet. This was my first fishing trip in a long time, and even longer since being in a small boat in the sea.

The weather was very good with a nice calm trip out. We set anchor and tried our luck to catch a Gummy Shark. The trouble is that as soon as the bait hits the bottom, the flathead hit. No chance at all to feed the Gummy. A little later we caught a Banjo Shark. This guy has quite pretty markings on its back but when turned upside down it looks like a weird face. Apparently they are not very good to eat. He was also rather small so we released him.

After a while with no action that was not flathead we moved to another area. Within seconds of dropping the line there were two flathead on the line. They seemed to not be fussy if the bait was squid or anything else. We ended up with a decent bag of catch even after throwing a lot of smaller legal size fish back.

As soon as the tide changed there were no more bites so we we headed back. The wind had come up so the trip was a bit rougher. On the way we had a good look at the old jetty that is going to be restored. The old jetty is actually the "new jetty" built in the late 1930's. The old jetty is a much smaller structure along further.

This was a good day outing. The cutting board was of great interest to the dog.

More on the jetty renovation.
http://www.southgippsland.vic.gov.au/homepage/1…Read more
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Day 50
Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 11:26 AM
☀️ 27 °C
Altitude: 183 m
Australia South Gippsland -38.62875, 146.1309738°37’44” S 146°7’51” E
Fall Road, Stony Creek
February 24, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
The rolling hills near where we are visiting near Foster. The drive along Fall road is quite beautiful.
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Day 50
Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 12:33 PM
☀️ 25 °C
Altitude: 19 m
Australia South Gippsland -38.75997, 146.200638°45’36” S 146°12’2” E
Noarlunga
February 24, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
This is the locality we drove through on our "shortcut" to rejoin the main road running down to Wilson's Promontory. Along this road we turned towards the cost on a less travelled road.

The area is farms with cattle and recently baled hay. There seems to be quite a stock of the different kinds of bales seen around. The most used ones here though are large round tightly wrapped in plastic.Read more
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Day 50
Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 1:00 PM
☀️ 23 °C
Altitude: 18 m
Australia South Gippsland -38.76059, 146.1992338°45’38” S 146°11’57” E
Winkarlin Drive
February 24, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Leaving Foster to the south is a shortcut of sorts heading towards Wilson's Promontory National Park. The road turns to a reasonable level gravel and eventually rejoins the main road.

Along this road was a track leading towards the sea. Eventually a turn to the left. Winkarlin drive is recently signed as a no through road. At the end of this road... Is nothing!

Heading back to the turn we noticed a "walk in" track. This leads out to the sea along the bay edge where we saw many black swans. This was a very picturesque area and worth the walk in.Read more
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Day 50
Saturday, February 24, 2018 at 2:37 PM
☀️ 19 °C
Altitude: 8 m
Australia Tidal River -39.03269, 146.3150739°1’58” S 146°18’54” E
Norman Beach, Wilson's Promontory NP
February 24, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
We, and hundreds of other people are here. Then a little rain and people started to disperse. Very scenic area.

Wilson's Promontory is mostly one large national park. It had probably escaped much development due to the terrain and probably harsh weather.

Today I was surprised by the huge numbers of visitors. The camping area was fully booked out with some vans and motor homes but lots of tent campers.

A sandy ramp runs down to the beach, quite easy going down but the fine sand made the return trip rather tiring. Down on the beach was a spectacular view of the mountain all covered at the top on misty cloud. The other side there were many people walking the track up to a scenic vantage point.

We had very little time to look around and were soon on our way out of the park. A mental note to make a real note to return with a few spare days to explore the many walking tracks.Read more
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Day 51
Sunday, February 25, 2018 at 10:56 AM
☀️ 15 °C
Altitude: 194 m
Australia South Gippsland -38.62016, 146.1486538°37’13” S 146°8’55” E
Near Foster
February 25, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
Victoria has rabbits. We have seen quite a few here and obviously farmers and people who want to grow vegetables are not happy to have them around. In the garden where we are visiting, there are a couple of very young kittens. They seem to venture quite close to the house and eat the flowers off the plants in the garden.

The garden has many birds ranging from tiny wrens to some larger parrots. It is very delightful to sit quietly watching so many wrens, thrushes, fantails and wagtails visit the water feature for a bath. The fantails put on quite an aerobatic show as they hover and dive hunting flying insects to eat. Wrens dance delicately across the lawn as they forage for food, their little tails waving around back and forth.

The wrens and fantails seem to not be too concerned about people and come quite close.Read more
TravelerNature nothing like it.
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Day 52
Monday, February 26, 2018 at 1:00 PM
☀️ 21 °C
Altitude: 7 m
Australia Robertsons Beach -38.65816, 146.7284538°39’29” S 146°43’42” E
Robertsons Beach
February 26, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
A nice view looking back towards Port Albert. Today is a little cooler but nice and sunny.
TravelerNot as nice as Stony Creek!
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TravelerDefinitely. Thanks to you guys we had a lovely stop.
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Day 52
Monday, February 26, 2018 at 3:33 PM
☀️ 21 °C
Altitude: 4 m
Australia Mcloughlins Beach -38.61023, 146.9004238°36’37” S 146°54’2” E
McLoughlins Beach
February 26, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C
From the boat ramp area there is a footbridge over the channel that leads to the ocean. Only a bit under a kilometre and you would be standing on 90mile beach.

Heading along through the car parking area you can pick up a delightful boardwalk that connects to the township. It is good to see the effort being put in to allow people to experience the wetlands safely and without impacting the plants and creatures that live there.Read more
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Day 52
Monday, February 26, 2018 at 9:08 PM
🌙 15 °C
Altitude: 11 m
Australia Reeves Beach -38.57314, 146.9534638°34’23” S 146°57’12” E
Reeves Beach Campground
February 26, 2018 in Australia ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
An impressive sunset, early moonrise, not yet full and lots of birds. This place was not on our list but once here we changed our plans.

The tiny wrens were quite numerous and not particularly shy. A couple were coming right up under our feet in the camp while we sat very quietly. The blue male was not quite so brave and watched from a few metres away.

A tree with lots of red berries was the star attraction for lots of silver eyes. They would fly in and eat the it fill of berries before heading off. Then the next shift arrived. A Robin turned up but never came close. A small marsupial, probably a quite small bandicoot came over the dune and scuttled quickly to the cover of a log.

The beach is part of the 90 mile Beach so there is no end to be seen. Over the high dune it is very windy and actually feels a bit cold. Behind the dune where the camp is the wind is less but once the sun went down a coat was in order.Read more
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Day 53
Tuesday, February 27, 2018 at 3:57 PM
☀️ 26 °C
Altitude: 7 m
Australia Lake Guthridge -38.11571, 147.0740638°6’57” S 147°4’27” E
Lake Guyatt
February 27, 2018 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Sale has some nice lakes that have pathways for walking around. Lake Guyatt and Lake Guthrie are well worth a visit. There are quite a few walks and other attractions within walking distance.

A large number of birds ate at home in these lakes.Read more
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