Blogs from Lakes Entrance, Victoria, Australia, Oceania
April 23rd 2012
Petite vidéo exclusivement sonore du chant du kookaburra tôt le matin, qui nous a réveillé la veille au Wilson Promontory. Soyez patient, ça monte en puissance et mettez le volume à fond! On se réveille sous la pluie, dès l'ouverture du van on est attaqué par les moustiques, vite on part en direction de Sale. On s'y arrête une bonne heure pour faire un "boardwalk", chemin en planche dans les marécages. Ambiance humide et mystique, beaucoup de moustiques, d'araignées et d'oiseaux. Arrivé Bairnsdale, quelques km plus loin le temps est enfin clément, on peut se mettre en débardeur et pantacourt, que c'est agréable! On fait le plein de nourriture au supermarché et on s'installe au soleil dans une aire de pique-nique pour le déjeuner. Pause bien venue et agréable. On décide de prendre la direction de ... read more
Lakes Entrance & Buchan Caves
Published: February 28th 2012Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Lakes Entrance
February 25th 2012
Four weeks after leaving Melbourne, we spent our first night in a proper bed. And we slept like logs! In the morning, we had the opportunity to check out Blaithin and Rory’s absolutely stunning house, before having breakfast on the balcony overlooking the lake… and the neighbour’s house, which is a castle. We experienced total house envy and are happy to house-sit anytime at all, you guys! After a leisurely morning (it was the morning of the night before), we took a drive and visited the Buchan Caves. These caves were actually discovered with tourism in mind. They were created by an underground stream which still fills the nearby, rather murky looking, “swimming pool”. The stalactites and stalagmites were very impressive and, as it was a sweltering 42 degree day, the 17 degree underground temperature was ... read more
February 4th 2012
We were sorry to be leaving our lovely, roomy motel room in Rawson after an exciting couple of days but on Friday 3rd February we began our journey further east towards Lakes Entrance. A few kilometres out of Rawson Graham spotted a sign for Peterson’s Lookout and since we had plenty of time we decided to explore. Unlike the gravel road to Mount Erica the road to Peterson’s Lookout was poor but, again unlike Mount Erica, the end result was excellent. The poor gravel road led to an even worse gravel walking track which had seen better days but the final views were sensational. The industrial areas that Grant had warned us about (Moe, Traralgon and Morwell) were visible in the very far distance and we could see four power stations. The immediate views, however, reminded ... read more
February 26th 2011
today (23rd Feb) we left the comforts of nyree's home and headed out on our long trip ahead. We decided that our first port of call would be Lakes Entrance (via the long way round) after taking a cruisy 6 hours making our way to lakes Entrance, after stoping off at the infomation center we found ourselfs a nice little caravan park in the middle of town called Sunny side. once we parked and set up we soon made friends with our neighbours, the people next to us where an enghlish couple, they gave us a few useful tips and hint to help with the trip ahead. we got talking and found out that they from brelwick and the people on the other side where from rosebud. the next morning (24th) i got up early to ... read more
February 21st 2011
We decided to stay another night here at Lakes entrance and take a drive further afield. So a relaxed start, rebooked for the night we drove off and visited the 90 mile beach. Not a good beach day as the wind had come up and was blowing cold and hard. We walked across the footbridge leading to the beach and had a look, the sea was running fairly hard and a good rip happening. Good decision not to go for a swim. We headed to Bairnsdale, and old township. The town was interesting, but the Cultural centre we chose to have a look at was closed, (The "bloke was sick and had been since last Thursday, not sure when he will be back") Was the statement by the guy in a verandah above the entrance. So ... read more
February 20th 2011
Gee two weeks on the road already, as the saying goes, "time flies when you are having fun" Well we are, a relaxed sleep in, with plans afoot to take a "Lakes lunch tour". The caravan park is quiet and even with a tent of young people with the mum & dad next door, we were not disturbed. The weather was lovely to wake up to, and Karon did the washing while Rick drove to the ticket office to obtain the tickets for the boat tour, and of course as he passed the fishing trawlers that were selling fresh fish, and he added 500gms of fresh prawns to his return to pick up Karon. Gee wonder what Karon will have for dinner tonight? (considering she doesn't like prawns) We left the jetty on board at 11am, ... read more
February 19th 2011
We left Mallacoota at around 930am with the rain drizzling as it had all night. The road into Mallacoota is reasonably snake like with the bends and also at times steep grades both up and down. The Vans brakes are still giving us a challenge with grabbing hard, so will attempt get to the bottom of this problem. We stopped at Cann River for fuel and a coffee. Handy to have both diesal and LPG at the same line of pumps. Econmy with the LPG over diesal is good with the Van being towed, it is averaging around 17ltrs/100klm. The last stretch to Lakes Entrance the weather cleared and the road was a comfortable one to tackle. We diverted through Orbost, just so we could, and arrived in Lakes Entrance at around1pm. Checked out the information ... read more
December 15th 2010
Hey Leute, wie geht's euch im verschneiten Österreich?! Wir sind heute in Lakes Entrance angekommen, dem 3. Stopp unseres Roadtrips bis Sydney. Am Montag dem 13. Dezember haben wir unser Nest (Webbers Yarra Valley) verlassen um in die große australische Welt aufzubrechen. Nach einer 3 stündigen Autofahrt haben wir es uns bei den Minipinguinen auf Philips Island gemütlich gemacht. Nachdem wir uns von diversen Stränden den Atem haben rauben lassen, haben wir uns mit unserem tollen Reisemobil einen attraktiven Platz zum Nächtigen gesucht. Eine nicht ganz so bequeme Nacht später haben wir unser Frühstück an einem wunderbaren Strand und bei Sonnenaufgang verknuspert. Auch wenn einer von uns die Morgentoilette ins dortige Gebüsch verlegt hat wurde es ein toller Tag. Hihi! Der gestrige Tag, also der 14. wurde für uns etwas ganz besonderes. Wir hatten Wilsons Promontory ... read more
November 22nd 2010
22 November 2010 After spending 1 night in a dodgy cabin at Lakes Entrance, we headed further South West along Lakes Entrance. The main part of Lakes Entrance was much more tourist focussed than I had imagined. Nice place but we are getting used to camp spots that are more off the beaten track so in search of camps that are not the standard campgrounds. The cabin at Lakes Entrance was VERY basic - I feel cleaner in the bush than in places like that! Reef, on the other hand, laid eyes on the cabin and said "wow, this place is BOODIFUL". Oh well, at least his standards are dropping...hehe So on we went in search of surf and waters that actually contain fish... We landed at Emu Bight which is part of The Lakes National ... read more
Melbourne - Lakes Entrance
Published: November 12th 2010Oceania » Australia » Victoria » Lakes Entrance
November 11th 2010
Rano som sa zobudil do uplne normalneho dna. Teda vtedy sa mi zdal byt normalny. To som ja naivny este netusil co moj brat vymysli. Len tak sa rozhodol, ze si spravime "mensi" vylet na vychodne pobrezie Australie, ale nastastie stale v state Victoria. Destination: Lakes Entrance. Vraj sa mam zbalit na cely den a pre istotu si mam zobrat aj nieco teplejsie ak by tam velmi fukalo. Do 20 minut sme boli v aute. Maleho Deagana sme cestou hodili do jasiel a sup ho na Princes freeway na trasu dlhu 400 km. Mozno by som mal trochu popisat ako su tu evidovane cesty. Freeway je viacprudova (3 az 5) cesta bez akychkolvek semaforov, zdrzani, cohokolvek. Najvyssia povolena rychlost je 110 km/hod. Ano moji mili, tak to je a fakt to boli. A tiez na kazdom ... read more
