Blogs from Merimbula, New South Wales, Australia, Oceania - page 3

Well here we go again, a blog to cover our "Gray Nomad" journey. We have had the Caravan for 4 years and the Nissan Patrol for about the same time. At last we managed to leave home on the 7th Feb 2011. During Karon & Rick's travel we will take our time to follow our journey at our speed and our time. This part is basically a shake down to check out the van and tow vehicle, to iron out any challenges or problems. Also to maybe redistrubute anything we may not use in the 8 weeks along the way. We will be back in Sydney in or around 2nd to 8th April. As per last blog we will publish some photos.... read more

Well I have had a bit of a change of plans. After reviewing my trip I think I wont make it to the cape in time before the wet season. The fishing down here is crap because its still cold. Sooooo I have decided to leg it straight to Cairns and go up the cape from there. Will spend about a month up the cape and around Cairns then head back down the East coast and visit everyone I said I would. This way I get the warmer water coming back down and should be more fun and gives me more time up the cape. Today was meant to be raining all day but the weather was perfect so went for another dive but still no bloody crayfish!!!! and now have a bloody sunburnt face!!!! Will ... read more

Lakes Entrance to Pebbly Beach, 8th to 11th April 2010 The four hour drive to Lakes Entrance from Melbourne took us through some small towns and very dense woodland. Lakes Entrance is a town based around several lakes at the point where they meet the sea, and is also set at one end of 90 mile beach. We checked into the YHA Riviera Backpackers, the accommodation is arranged into units and we were placed in the one next to the weird guy who was demonstrating what a cuddle was, as if you didn’t know! What is it with hostels and weird guys? Lakes Entrance is a popular fishing resort and a large hub for many of the fishing boats of the area so therefore we thought it only right that we try some of the local ... read more

After hanging out a few more days after the wedding with everyone in Jervis Bay, we headed south down the coast about 5 hours to a beautiful spot we had been before, Merimbula. Merimbula is on the the Sapphire Coast and is about hour north of the border between New South Wales and Victoria. We stayed for 5 days at the Merimbula Beach Caravan Park which is directly overlooking a quiet little beach. You can rent some really great cabins there if you don't have a caravan, tent, etc. and they are a pretty good deal. The campground has 2 pools, tennis courts, cooking facilities, arcade, little cafe - all for $26 a night. We didn't do alot when we were down that way - think everyone needed to relax a bit after the wedding, so ... read more

Day 11 Sunday 8 Feb Bairnsdale to Merimbula The cool of a new day. Under 20 degrees. The people I met around the caravan park this morning mainly long term Aussie vacationers going from Brisbane to Tassie or vice versa- were all relieved that the freak temperatures of yesterday were over, but like everyone were still anxious about the bushfire situation. The witness reports in today’s Melbourne Herald- Sun really brought home the horror of it all, which we were lucky to have missed. The death toll is mounting and many fires are not yet ‘contained’. The Princes Highway, unbeknown to us, was closed around Traralgon/Sale, maybe a couple of hours after we had passed through yesterday. Thanks to Ivor and Helen who finally got us to respond to their calls to see if we were ... read more